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 204 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 493 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 609 records in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The series covers the period stretching from May 2012 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions hit a maximum of 2,603 contracts on 18 February 2025; they hit a trough of 0 on 30 December 2014; they averaged 522.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 360.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 493.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 204.0 |
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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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