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 7,912 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 7,865 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 603 records in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The time range covered by the series goes from May 2012 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean of -591 contracts; they peaked at 12,610 on 24 March 2026; they reached their lowest level of -20,985 on 15 February 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 7014.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 7865.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 7912.0 |
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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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