COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 3,540 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 5,028 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 1,041 records in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The time span covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Take a look at a few summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 6,322 contracts; they recorded a maximum of 22,266 on 22 August 2017; they reached their minimum of 0 on 19 June 2007.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 4219.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 5028.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 3540.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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