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 5,032 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 4,047 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 1,060 observations in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The series covers the period stretching from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions reached their highest level of 29,784 contracts on 28 May 2019; they hit a trough of 877 on 11 July 2023; they were equal on average to 10,929.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 4712.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 4047.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 5032.0 |
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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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