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." stood at 360 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus 413 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. There are 607 records overall in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The time span covered by the series goes from May 2012 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions reached a minimum of 0 contracts on 30 December 2014; they attained a maximum of 2,603 on 18 February 2025; they had a mean value of 523.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 241.000 |
| 2026-09-08 | 413.000 |
| 2026-09-15 | 360.000 |
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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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