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 10,310 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 9,835 on 9 June.
Sample. The weekly series plotted above has 594 observations in total. The time span covered by the series extends from May 2012 to June 2026.
History. Check out a few summary statistics we computed on the full sample: positions averaged -721 contracts; they reached a maximum of 12,610 on 24 March 2026; they reached their minimum of -20,985 on 15 February 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 8795.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 9835.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 10310.0 |
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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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