COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders 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 other reporting traders in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 3,954 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 3,469 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. In the weekly time series presented in the figure, there are a total of 1,041 data points. The series covers the time range going from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some summary statistics calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 8,192 contracts; they recorded a minimum of 731 on 12 September 2023; they reached their highest level of 24,850 on 3 April 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 2979.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 3469.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 3954.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders 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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