COT reports: Long positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 3,308 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 3,170 on 9 June.
Sample. There are 594 observations in the weekly time series presented in the graph above. The series covers the time range stretching from May 2012 to June 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 4,320 contracts; they reached a trough of 99 on 3 May 2022; they recorded their maximum of 15,028 on 26 May 2015.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 2960.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 3170.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 3308.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by other 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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