COT reports: Short positions held by money managers 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 money managers in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 11,724 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 10,667 on 20 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,025 observations in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The series covers the period going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions averaged 21,016 contracts; they hit a maximum of 104,482 on 4 September 2018; they reached their lowest level of 754 on 22 December 2009.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 9008.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 10667.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 11724.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by money managers 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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