COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by swap dealers in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 51,343 contracts on 27 January 2026, versus 52,868 on 20 January.
Sample. The weekly series shown in the figure has 1,025 observations. The time period covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at some summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions reached a maximum of 91,801 contracts on 31 December 2019; they hit a minimum of 5,061 on 26 June 2012; they were equal on average to 38,243.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 55614.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 52868.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 51343.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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