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." stood at 47,169 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 48,987 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 1,060 records overall in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The series covers the period stretching from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean of 38,528 contracts; they recorded their maximum of 91,801 on 31 December 2019; they reached their lowest level of 5,061 on 26 June 2012.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 48082.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 48987.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 47169.0 |
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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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