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 51,225 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 50,561 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has 1,054 data points overall. The series covers the time period extending from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions registered a minimum of 5,061 contracts on 26 June 2012; they attained a maximum of 91,801 on 31 December 2019; they had a mean of 38,468.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 49444.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 50561.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 51225.0 |
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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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