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 24,732 contracts on 20 January 2026, compared to 28,421 on 13 January.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,024 records in total. The series covers the time period stretching from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some statistics computed on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 50,424 contracts; they reached their minimum of 23,724 on 7 March 2023; they recorded their maximum of 88,060 on 19 February 2008.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | 30692.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 28421.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 24732.0 |
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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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