COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by swap dealers in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were -26,633 contracts on 20 January 2026, compared to -29,781 on 13 January.
Sample. There are 1,024 observations overall in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The period covered by the series is from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at a few simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean of -8,188 contracts; they recorded their maximum of 25,263 on 4 September 2018; they recorded a bottom of -54,388 on 1 July 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | -26146.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | -29781.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | -26633.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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