COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 7,084 contracts on 20 January 2026, compared to 6,269 on 13 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,024 data points in the weekly time series shown in the chart above. The series covers the time span extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions averaged 6,337 contracts; they hit a maximum of 22,266 on 22 August 2017; they reached a minimum of 0 on 19 June 2007.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | 6957.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 6269.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 7084.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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