COT reports: Long positions held by all 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 79,912 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 78,744 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,060 data points in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The time range covered by the series is from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here are some summary statistics computed on the full sample: positions averaged 124,366 contracts; they peaked at 211,437 on 21 August 2018; they reached a minimum of 65,312 on 2 December 2008.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 78659.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 78744.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 79912.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all 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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