COT reports: Long positions held by money managers 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 money managers in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 10,189 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 10,723 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has 590 observations in total. The series covers the time range extending from May 2012 to May 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions hit a minimum of 0 contracts on 12 April 2016; they achieved a maximum of 13,120 on 27 January 2026; they had a mean value of 2,077.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 10286.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 10723.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 10189.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by money managers 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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