COT reports: Long positions held by all 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 39,835 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 39,326 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 590 observations. The series covers the time span extending from May 2012 to May 2026.
History. Take a look at some statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached their minimum of 8,748 contracts on 12 February 2013; they achieved a maximum of 42,422 on 28 April 2026; they had a mean of 20,798.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 37970.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 39326.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 39835.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all 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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