COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in steel futures of the kind "STEEL-HRC - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 728 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 878 on 22 September.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 609 observations. The time period covered by the series stretches from May 2012 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions achieved a maximum of 4,763 contracts on 24 June 2025; they registered a minimum of 0 on 26 December 2017; they were equal on average to 485.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 940.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 878.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 728.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers 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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