COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by swap dealers in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were -23,498 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus -26,242 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,060 records overall in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The time period covered by the series extends from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of -8,778 contracts; they registered a minimum of -54,388 on 1 July 2025; they peaked at 25,263 on 4 September 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | -25346.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | -26242.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | -23498.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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