COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by producers and merchants in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at -15,492 contracts on 31 March 2026, versus -15,242 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 1,034 data points. The series covers the period stretching from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean of -39,031 contracts; they achieved a maximum of -9,657 on 11 September 2018; they recorded a minimum of -74,903 on 18 April 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | -14797.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | -15242.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | -15492.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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