COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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), compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 123 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 70 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 572 records in the weekly time series shown in the chart above. The series covers the time span stretching from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 531 contracts; they hit a peak of 2,603 on 18 February 2025; they registered a minimum of 0 on 30 December 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 489.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 70.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 123.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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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