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 11,935 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 11,469 on 10 February.
Sample. There are 577 records in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The time span covered by the series extends from May 2012 to February 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions averaged -1,047 contracts; they recorded their highest level of 12,016 on 27 January 2026; they recorded a minimum of -20,985 on 15 February 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 11520.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 11469.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 11935.0 |
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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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