COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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), compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 23,181 contracts on 20 January 2026, versus 20,191 on 13 January.
Sample. There are 1,024 data points overall in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The time range covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions attained a maximum of 40,892 contracts on 15 January 2008; they registered a minimum of 1,535 on 13 October 2020; they had a mean of 10,266.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | 18306.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 20191.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 23181.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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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