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 18,820 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 19,319 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 data points in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The series covers the time range stretching from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Check out some descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 16,602 contracts; they reached a minimum of 5,049 on 6 March 2012; they hit a peak of 35,477 on 11 July 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 15989.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 19319.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 18820.0 |
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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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