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 14,994 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 14,371 on 9 June 2026.
Sample. There are 594 records overall in the weekly time series displayed in the figure above. The period covered by the series is from May 2012 to June 2026.
History. Have a look at some descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions registered a minimum of 121 contracts on 10 September 2013; they peaked at 25,165 on 15 February 2022; they had an average value of 7,529.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 13290.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 14371.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 14994.0 |
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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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