COT reports: Short positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 21,195 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 21,069 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 1,041 data points in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Have a look at a few summary statistics computed on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 49,930 contracts; they recorded their highest level of 88,060 on 19 February 2008; they reached a trough of 17,734 on 7 April 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 19191.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 21069.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 21195.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by producers and merchants 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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