COT reports: Total open positions (open interest) 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), total open positions (open interest) in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 152,020 contracts on 20 January 2026, compared to 151,513 on 13 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,024 data points overall in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The span of time covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions hit a maximum of 244,196 contracts on 21 August 2018; they reached their lowest level of 82,434 on 2 December 2008; they had an average value of 152,586.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | 153240.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 151513.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 152020.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Total open positions (open interest) 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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