COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by swap dealers in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 26,235 contracts on 20 January 2026, versus 25,833 on 13 January 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series displayed in the figure has 1,024 observations overall. The series covers the period going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics computed on the full sample: positions had an average value of 30,042 contracts; they reached their maximum of 56,967 on 3 September 2019; they recorded a bottom of 4,581 on 27 June 2006.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | 31774.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 25833.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 26235.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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