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 14,273 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 13,426 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 603 data points in the weekly series displayed in the graph above. The time span covered by the series goes from May 2012 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions registered a minimum of 121 contracts on 10 September 2013; they hit a peak of 25,165 on 15 February 2022; they had a mean of 7,622.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 13163.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 13426.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 14273.0 |
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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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