COT reports: Short positions held by money managers 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), short positions held by money managers in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 10,667 contracts on 20 January 2026, versus 9,008 on 13 January.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 1,024 records overall. The time span covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had an average value of 21,025 contracts; they reached their lowest level of 754 on 22 December 2009; they hit a maximum of 104,482 on 4 September 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | 11156.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 9008.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 10667.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by money managers 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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