COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by other 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), compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 833 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 912 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 572 records in the weekly series presented in the chart above. The series covers the period stretching from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions hit a trough of 0 contracts on 11 November 2014; they reached their highest level of 3,165 on 26 November 2013; they had a mean value of 741.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 1066.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 912.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 833.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by other 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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