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 6,380 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 5,430 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series displayed in the chart has a total of 1,041 records. The series covers the span of time stretching from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here are some statistics computed on the entire sample: positions averaged 20,767 contracts; they registered a minimum of 754 on 22 December 2009; they attained a maximum of 104,482 on 4 September 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 4854.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 5430.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 6380.0 |
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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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