COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders 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 all reporting traders in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 142,546 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 137,587 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 1,025 observations overall in the weekly series presented in the chart above. The series covers the span of time going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at a few simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of 140,523 contracts; they hit a trough of 74,153 on 2 December 2008; they reached their highest level of 230,187 on 6 August 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 139229.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 137587.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 142546.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all reporting traders 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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