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 9,646 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 8,772 on 6 January.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 572 records. The series covers the time period stretching from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 4,299 contracts; they reached a trough of -12,083 on 18 March 2025; they recorded their highest level of 12,371 on 22 February 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 10174.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 8772.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 9646.0 |
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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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