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COT reports: Short positions held by money managers in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly

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 6,153 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 7,653 on 10 February.

Sample. There are 1,028 records in the weekly time series shown in the plot above. The period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to February 2026.

History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics computed on the full sample: positions had a mean of 20,976 contracts; they reached their lowest level of 754 on 22 December 2009; they reached their highest level of 104,482 on 4 September 2018.

Latest values

Date Value - Number of contracts
2026-02-03 8206.0
2026-02-10 7653.0
2026-02-17 6153.0

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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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Series Name Observations Start Date End Date
COT reports: Total open positions (open interest) in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1028 2006-06-13 2026-02-17
COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1028 2006-06-13 2026-02-17
COT reports: Short positions held by producers and merchants in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1028 2006-06-13 2026-02-17
COT reports: Net long positions held by producers and merchants in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1028 2006-06-13 2026-02-17
COT reports: Long positions held by swap dealers in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1028 2006-06-13 2026-02-17
COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1028 2006-06-13 2026-02-17
COT reports: Net long positions held by swap dealers in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1028 2006-06-13 2026-02-17
COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1028 2006-06-13 2026-02-17
COT reports: Long positions held by money managers in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1028 2006-06-13 2026-02-17
COT reports: Short positions held by money managers in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1028 2006-06-13 2026-02-17
COT reports: Net long positions held by money managers in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1028 2006-06-13 2026-02-17
COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1028 2006-06-13 2026-02-17
COT reports: Long positions held by other reporting traders in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1028 2006-06-13 2026-02-17
COT reports: Short positions held by other reporting traders in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1028 2006-06-13 2026-02-17
COT reports: Net long positions held by other reporting traders in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1028 2006-06-13 2026-02-17
COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1028 2006-06-13 2026-02-17
COT reports: Long positions held by all reporting traders in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1028 2006-06-13 2026-02-17
COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1028 2006-06-13 2026-02-17
COT reports: Long positions held by non-reporting traders in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1028 2006-06-13 2026-02-17
COT reports: Short positions held by non-reporting traders in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1028 2006-06-13 2026-02-17
COT reports: Net long positions held by non-reporting traders in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1028 2006-06-13 2026-02-17