COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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), compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 12,512 contracts on 20 January 2026, versus 13,852 on 13 January 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series shown in the plot has 1,024 observations. The series covers the period extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at a few simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions recorded their highest level of 22,677 contracts on 20 November 2018; they recorded a minimum of 321 on 13 September 2022; they had a mean of 6,022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | 11068.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 13852.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 12512.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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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