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 43,202 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 41,528 on 9 June 2026.
Sample. There are 594 records overall in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The time period covered by the series goes from May 2012 to June 2026.
History. Check out some simple statistics computed on the whole sample: positions recorded a bottom of 8,937 contracts on 12 February 2013; they hit a peak of 43,202 on 16 June 2026; they had a mean of 21,221.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 38380.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 41528.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 43202.0 |
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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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