COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 48,082 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus 49,609 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,058 observations in total. The series covers the period stretching from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few summary statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached a trough of 5,061 contracts on 26 June 2012; they achieved a maximum of 91,801 on 31 December 2019; they averaged 38,510.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 49,804.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 49,609.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 48,082.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by swap dealers 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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