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 35,853 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 33,780 on 10 February.
Sample. The weekly time series plotted above has 577 data points overall. The series covers the span of time going from May 2012 to February 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions had a mean of 20,405 contracts; they peaked at 41,132 on 18 March 2025; they reached a minimum of 8,748 on 12 February 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 33180.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 33780.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 35853.0 |
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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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