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 9,451 contracts on 17 February 2026, versus 8,646 on 10 February.
Sample. There are 577 observations overall in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The period covered by the series is from May 2012 to February 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions averaged 7,388 contracts; they hit a minimum of 121 on 10 September 2013; they reached a maximum of 25,165 on 15 February 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 9408.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 8646.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 9451.0 |
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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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