COT reports: Total open positions (open interest) 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), total open positions (open interest) in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 36,390 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 34,477 on 10 February.
Sample. This weekly series has 577 data points overall. The time span covered by the series goes from May 2012 to February 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions attained a maximum of 41,425 contracts on 18 March 2025; they registered a minimum of 8,937 on 12 February 2013; they had an average value of 20,685.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 33859.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 34477.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 36390.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Total open positions (open interest) 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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