COT reports: Long positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 16,647 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 15,378 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 1,041 observations overall in the weekly time series shown in the plot above. The period covered by the series is from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Have a look at a few summary statistics we computed on the full sample: positions attained a maximum of 35,477 contracts on 11 July 2017; they registered a minimum of 5,049 on 6 March 2012; they were equal on average to 16,588.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 17268.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 15378.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 16647.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by other 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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