COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 13,646 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 12,239 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 590 observations overall in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The time period covered by the series goes from May 2012 to May 2026.
History. Check out some simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions attained a maximum of 25,165 contracts on 15 February 2022; they hit a minimum of 121 on 10 September 2013; they had a mean of 7,483.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 11604.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 12239.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 13646.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by producers and merchants 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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