COT reports: Net long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at -21,036 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to -18,587 on 6 January.
Sample. This weekly time series has 572 data points in total. The series covers the time period stretching from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions recorded a minimum of -21,036 contracts on 13 January 2026; they hit a peak of 10,360 on 15 February 2022; they had a mean of -1,466.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | -20419.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | -18587.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | -21036.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by producers and merchants 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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