COT reports: Short positions held by money managers 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 money managers in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 7,838 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 8,798 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 1,054 observations in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The series covers the time range going from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Check out a few statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions achieved a maximum of 104,482 contracts on 4 September 2018; they reached their minimum of 754 on 22 December 2009; they had a mean value of 20,596.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 8491.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 8798.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 7838.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by money managers 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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