COT reports: Long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 19,655 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 20,697 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 1,041 observations in the weekly time series displayed in the chart above. The series covers the time range extending from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions recorded a bottom of 4,581 contracts on 27 June 2006; they reached a maximum of 56,967 on 3 September 2019; they had a mean of 29,903.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 19942.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 20697.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 19655.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by swap dealers 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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