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 -16,512 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to -18,512 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,060 records overall in the weekly series displayed in the graph above. The time range covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Check out a few simple statistics calculated on the full sample: positions attained a maximum of -9,657 contracts on 11 September 2018; they hit a trough of -74,903 on 18 April 2017; they had a mean value of -38,471.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | -17354.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | -18512.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | -16512.0 |
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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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