COT reports: Net long positions held by other reporting traders in steel futures: STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Steel futures COT reports (CFTC)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. According to the Commitments of Traders (COT) reports published by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), net long positions held by other reporting traders in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 236 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to -371 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. In the weekly time series plotted above, there are 572 data points. The series covers the span of time going from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Here are some summary statistics computed on the full sample: positions reached a trough of -9,688 contracts on 22 March 2016; they hit a peak of 4,362 on 14 January 2020; they were equal on average to -1,801.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 357.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | -371.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 236.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by other reporting traders in steel futures |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Stock |
| Data type | Quantity |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Unit | Number of contracts |
| Source | Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Public domain information |
| Other information | Specific future: STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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