COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 5,735 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 5,452 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 1,054 observations. The series covers the span of time going from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached their minimum of 877 contracts on 11 July 2023; they attained a maximum of 29,784 on 28 May 2019; they averaged 10,964.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 6151.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 5452.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 5735.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by producers and merchants 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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