COT reports: Short positions held by all 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 97,839 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 98,054 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,060 records in the weekly series displayed in the graph above. The time range covered by the series is from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Take a look at a few summary statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions reached a maximum of 230,187 contracts on 6 August 2019; they reached a minimum of 74,153 on 2 December 2008; they averaged 139,248.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 96033.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 98054.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 97839.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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