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." stood at -19,756 contracts on 20 January 2026, versus -25,511 on 13 January.
Sample. There are 1,024 records overall in the weekly time series displayed in the chart above. The time range covered by the series extends from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few summary statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached a minimum of -74,903 contracts on 18 April 2017; they recorded a maximum of -9,657 on 11 September 2018; they averaged -39,250.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | -25545.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | -25511.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | -19756.0 |
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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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