COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 44,917 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 45,593 on 24 March.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 1,034 data points in total. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Check out some statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded a minimum of 5,061 contracts on 26 June 2012; they hit a peak of 91,801 on 31 December 2019; they had a mean of 38,315.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 45444.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 45593.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 44917.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by swap dealers 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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