COT reports: Net long positions held by money managers 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), net long positions held by money managers in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 7,578 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 7,381 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 609 data points in the weekly series displayed in the graph above. The time span covered by the series stretches from May 2012 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions had a mean of -512 contracts; they reached their minimum of -20,985 on 15 February 2022; they reached their highest level of 12,610 on 24 March 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 7733.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 7381.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 7578.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by money managers 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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