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 8,675 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 8,619 on 12 May.
Sample. The weekly time series shown in the graph has 1,041 records. The series covers the time range extending from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Take a look at some statistics computed on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to 10,385 contracts; they attained a maximum of 40,892 on 15 January 2008; they reached a minimum of 1,535 on 13 October 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 9083.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 8619.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 8675.0 |
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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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