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 92,325 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 93,533 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. The weekly series displayed in the graph has 1,041 data points overall. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions reached their minimum of 74,153 contracts on 2 December 2008; they attained a maximum of 230,187 on 6 August 2019; they were equal on average to 139,996.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 87764.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 93533.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 92325.0 |
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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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