COT reports: Net long 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), net long positions held by other reporting traders in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 15,268 contracts on 20 January 2026, versus 18,268 on 13 January.
Sample. There are 1,024 records overall in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The time range covered by the series extends from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached their lowest level of -6,743 contracts on 25 August 2020; they recorded their highest level of 26,026 on 23 July 2024; they averaged 10,197.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | 13449.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 18268.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 15268.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long 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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