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 43,030 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 44,711 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 1,041 records overall in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The span of time covered by the series extends from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions recorded their highest level of 91,801 contracts on 31 December 2019; they registered a minimum of 5,061 on 26 June 2012; they had a mean value of 38,354.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 42864.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 44711.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 43030.0 |
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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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