COT reports: Short positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 22,066 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 22,133 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,058 observations in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time period going from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Check out a few statistics computed on the full sample: positions recorded their highest level of 88,060 contracts on 19 February 2008; they hit a trough of 17,379 on 30 June 2026; they averaged 49,452.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 21,843.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 22,133.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 22,066.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by producers and merchants 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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