COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by money managers in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 19,533 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 19,956 on 11 August.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 1,054 data points. The series covers the period going from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Take a look at some descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions reached a trough of 12,121 contracts on 17 February 2026; they reached a maximum of 114,249 on 11 April 2017; they averaged 42,709.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 20465.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 19956.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 19533.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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