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 105,657 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 104,224 on 24 March.
Sample. There are 1,034 observations in the weekly time series shown in the plot above. The series covers the time span stretching from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached a minimum of 74,153 contracts on 2 December 2008; they recorded their maximum of 230,187 on 6 August 2019; they averaged 140,280.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 104938.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 104224.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 105657.0 |
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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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