COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Silver 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 silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 10,177 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 7,311 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 data points in the weekly time series shown in the chart above. The series covers the time range stretching from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Check out a few summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions averaged 10,371 contracts; they reached their maximum of 40,892 on 15 January 2008; they recorded a minimum of 1,535 on 13 October 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 10974.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 7311.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 10177.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in silver 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: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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