COT reports: Long positions held by non-reporting traders 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), long positions held by non-reporting traders in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 635 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 611 on 20 January 2026.
Sample. There are 574 records overall in the weekly time series shown in the graph above. The series covers the time range stretching from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 279 contracts; they hit a minimum of 0 on 26 July 2016; they hit a maximum of 845 on 31 December 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 564.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 611.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 635.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by non-reporting traders 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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