COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by other 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), compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 6,543 contracts on 20 January 2026, compared to 5,874 on 13 January.
Sample. There are 1,024 records overall in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The time span covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 8,217 contracts; they reached a minimum of 731 on 12 September 2023; they peaked at 24,850 on 3 April 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | 5746.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 5874.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 6543.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by other 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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