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." stood at 311 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 277 on 20 January.
Sample. This weekly time series has 574 observations in total. The time period covered by the series stretches from May 2012 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 500 contracts; they attained a maximum of 4,763 on 24 June 2025; they recorded a bottom of 0 on 26 December 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 277.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 277.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 311.0 |
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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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