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." stood at 1,902 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 1,437 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 1,041 observations in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time period stretching from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here are some simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions averaged 11,043 contracts; they reached their highest level of 29,784 on 28 May 2019; they reached a trough of 877 on 11 July 2023.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 1578.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 1437.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 1902.0 |
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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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