COT reports: Net long positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 1,650 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 1,326 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 609 records overall in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The series covers the period going from May 2012 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded a bottom of -9,688 contracts on 22 March 2016; they achieved a maximum of 4,362 on 14 January 2020; they had a mean value of -1,618.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 1196.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 1326.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 1650.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by other 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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