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 111,682 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 106,350 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are a total of 1,054 records. The series covers the time range stretching from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions averaged 139,482 contracts; they recorded a bottom of 74,153 on 2 December 2008; they hit a peak of 230,187 on 6 August 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 103634.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 106350.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 111682.0 |
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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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