COT reports: Net long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 13,955 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 13,224 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 603 observations in the weekly time series presented in the graph above. The series covers the time range stretching from May 2012 to August 2026.
History. Here are a few summary statistics computed on the whole sample: positions recorded their maximum of 14,625 contracts on 28 April 2026; they hit a minimum of -12,083 on 18 March 2025; they had a mean of 4,689.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 12461.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 13224.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 13955.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by swap dealers 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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