COT reports: Short positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 8,426 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 10,267 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 1,041 observations in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Check out some descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had an average value of 12,032 contracts; they reached their minimum of 6,211 on 31 December 2019; they reached their highest level of 19,370 on 29 October 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 9168.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 10267.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 8426.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-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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