COT reports: Net long positions held by money managers 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 money managers in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 12,016 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 11,440 on 20 January.
Sample. This weekly time series has 574 data points. The series covers the span of time extending from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at some simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions registered a minimum of -20,985 contracts on 15 February 2022; they achieved a maximum of 12,016 on 27 January 2026; they averaged -1,113.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 10786.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 11440.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 12016.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by money managers 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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