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 9,272 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 5,994 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,060 records overall in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The time span covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached their highest level of 104,482 contracts on 4 September 2018; they reached their lowest level of 754 on 22 December 2009; they averaged 20,520.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 7081.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 5994.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 9272.0 |
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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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