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." stood at 74,328 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 75,998 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 1,041 data points overall in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The period covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Have a look at some simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions reached a maximum of 211,437 contracts on 21 August 2018; they registered a minimum of 65,312 on 2 December 2008; they averaged 125,170.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 71121.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 75998.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 74328.0 |
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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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