COT reports: Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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 non-reporting traders in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 7,712 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 7,365 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,058 observations in total. The series covers the time range going from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Take a look at some simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions averaged 11,988 contracts; they reached their lowest level of 6,211 on 31 December 2019; they recorded their maximum of 19,370 on 29 October 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 7,916.00 |
| 2026-09-08 | 7,365.00 |
| 2026-09-15 | 7,712.00 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-reporting traders 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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