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 10,918 contracts on 31 March 2026, versus 12,136 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. There are 583 observations in the weekly time series shown in the graph above. The series covers the period stretching from May 2012 to March 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions averaged 4,421 contracts; they reached their lowest level of -12,083 on 18 March 2025; they reached their highest level of 12,371 on 22 February 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 12022.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 12136.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 10918.0 |
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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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