COT reports: Net long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were -17,354 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to -17,517 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,058 data points in the weekly time series shown in the plot above. The series covers the span of time extending from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics computed on the full sample: positions reached their minimum of -74,903 contracts on 18 April 2017; they recorded their maximum of -9,657 on 11 September 2018; they had an average value of -38,510.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | -16,675.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | -17,517.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | -17,354.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by producers and merchants 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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