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 2,127 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 3,263 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,060 observations overall in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The series covers the time range extending from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics computed on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 6,290 contracts; they reached their lowest level of 0 on 19 June 2007; they reached a maximum of 22,266 on 22 August 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 2988.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 3263.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 2127.0 |
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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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