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." were 98,368 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 93,921 on 9 June 2026.
Sample. There are 1,045 observations in the weekly time series shown in the chart above. The time period covered by the series is from June 2006 to June 2026.
History. Take a look at a few descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions recorded their highest level of 230,187 contracts on 6 August 2019; they hit a trough of 74,153 on 2 December 2008; they were equal on average to 139,822.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 93447.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 93921.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 98368.0 |
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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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