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 844 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 806 on 9 June 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 594 records overall. The period covered by the series is from May 2012 to June 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 737 contracts; they reached a maximum of 3,165 on 26 November 2013; they reached a minimum of 0 on 11 November 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 675.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 806.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 844.0 |
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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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