COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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), long positions held by producers and merchants in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 5,895 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 4,976 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 1,025 data points in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The series covers the time range extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at some summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 11,169 contracts; they peaked at 29,784 on 28 May 2019; they reached their minimum of 877 on 11 July 2023.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 2910.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 4976.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 5895.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by producers and merchants 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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