COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by swap dealers in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 28,500 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 26,235 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 1,025 observations overall in the weekly time series shown in the graph above. The time span covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 30,040 contracts; they recorded a minimum of 4,581 on 27 June 2006; they reached their highest level of 56,967 on 3 September 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 25833.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 26235.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 28500.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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