COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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), compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 10,393 contracts on 27 January 2026, versus 12,512 on 20 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,025 data points in the weekly time series displayed in the graph above. The series covers the time period extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions reached their maximum of 22,677 contracts on 20 November 2018; they hit a trough of 321 on 13 September 2022; they had an average value of 6,026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 13852.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 12512.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 10393.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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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