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." stood at 9,780 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 11,786 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. There are 583 data points in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The series covers the time span stretching from May 2012 to March 2026.
History. Check out some summary statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded a bottom of 121 contracts on 10 September 2013; they recorded their highest level of 25,165 on 15 February 2022; they averaged 7,424.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 11906.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 11786.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 9780.0 |
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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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