COT reports: Total open positions (open interest) 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), total open positions (open interest) in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 131,496 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 133,641 on 10 February.
Sample. There are 1,028 records overall in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The span of time covered by the series is from June 2006 to February 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded their highest level of 244,196 contracts on 21 August 2018; they reached a trough of 82,434 on 2 December 2008; they had a mean value of 152,542.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 143180.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 133641.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 131496.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Total open positions (open interest) 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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