COT reports: Net long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were -23,627 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus -25,008 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 590 observations overall in the weekly series presented in the chart above. The time span covered by the series stretches from May 2012 to May 2026.
History. Have a look at a few simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of -2,151 contracts; they reached their lowest level of -27,082 on 24 March 2026; they hit a peak of 10,360 on 15 February 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | -24604.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | -25008.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | -23627.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by producers and merchants 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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