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 12,216 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 11,883 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 609 records overall in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The time range covered by the series is from May 2012 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics we computed on the full sample: positions averaged 7,667 contracts; they peaked at 25,165 on 15 February 2022; they recorded a minimum of 121 on 10 September 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 11560.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 11883.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 12216.0 |
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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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