COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 11,693 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 11,416 on 20 January.
Sample. The weekly time series shown in the figure has 574 data points in total. The span of time covered by the series extends from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some statistics calculated on the full sample: positions averaged 7,378 contracts; they hit a peak of 25,165 on 15 February 2022; they reached their lowest level of 121 on 10 September 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 10413.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 11416.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 11693.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by producers and merchants 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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