COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 6,417 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 3,816 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 1,054 records in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The series covers the span of time going from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 6,038 contracts; they recorded their highest level of 22,677 on 20 November 2018; they hit a trough of 321 on 13 September 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 4865.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 3816.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 6417.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers 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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