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 -25,346 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus -27,391 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 1,058 observations in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The series covers the time range going from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at a few simple statistics computed on the whole sample: positions reached their maximum of 25,263 contracts on 4 September 2018; they reached a trough of -54,388 on 1 July 2025; they had a mean value of -8,747.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | -28,605.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | -27,391.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | -25,346.0 |
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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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