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." were 42,745 contracts on 16 June 2026, versus 41,017 on 9 June.
Sample. This weekly series has 594 observations. The series covers the span of time stretching from May 2012 to June 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached a minimum of 8,748 contracts on 12 February 2013; they recorded a maximum of 42,745 on 16 June 2026; they averaged 20,933.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 37624.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 41017.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 42745.0 |
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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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