COT reports: Net long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 15,080 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 13,985 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. There are 607 data points in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The time range covered by the series stretches from May 2012 to September 2026.
History. Here are some statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions hit a trough of -12,083 contracts on 18 March 2025; they recorded their maximum of 15,611 on 25 August 2026; they had a mean value of 4,754.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 13,547.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 13,985.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 15,080.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by swap dealers 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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