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." stood at 17,944 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 21,191 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. In the weekly series shown in the graph, there are 1,041 records in total. The series covers the time period extending from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached their lowest level of 12,121 contracts on 17 February 2026; they achieved a maximum of 114,249 on 11 April 2017; they were equal on average to 43,013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 15697.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 21191.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 17944.0 |
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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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