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 550 contracts on 31 March 2026, versus 616 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. There are 583 observations in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The series covers the span of time extending from May 2012 to March 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions reached their maximum of 3,165 contracts on 26 November 2013; they recorded a bottom of 0 on 11 November 2014; they had an average value of 740.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 709.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 616.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 550.0 |
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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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