COT reports: Net long positions held by non-reporting traders 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 non-reporting traders in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 349 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 494 on 10 February 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series displayed in the figure has 577 data points overall. The time span covered by the series extends from May 2012 to February 2026.
History. Have a look at some simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions registered a minimum of -1,082 contracts on 9 December 2014; they peaked at 618 on 31 May 2022; they averaged 129.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 493.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 494.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 349.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by non-reporting traders 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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