COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by other reporting traders in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 13,107 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 10,350 on 12 May.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 1,041 observations overall. The series covers the period extending from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions hit a trough of -6,743 contracts on 25 August 2020; they reached their highest level of 26,026 on 23 July 2024; they had a mean of 10,266.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 13049.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 10350.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 13107.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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