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 14,433 contracts on 20 January 2026, compared to 12,284 on 13 January.
Sample. There are 1,024 records in the weekly time series shown in the plot above. The series covers the time period stretching from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean of 12,065 contracts; they recorded a bottom of 6,211 on 31 December 2019; they reached a maximum of 19,370 on 29 October 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | 11395.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 12284.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 14433.0 |
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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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