COMEX Squeeze Tracker

Physical Delivery Intelligence

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Check CMEData: Feb 18, 2026

Silver For Sale Inventory

88.19M oz@ $82.79/oz

⏳ At 30-day velocity: 29 days to zero

Vault Traffic

🔻 -1.39M oz

OUTFLOW

Bank Accumulation Alert

The House stopped 7 contracts on Wed, Feb 18 — registered gains at Brink's

Daily Change

-600.7K oz

(-0.68%)

Weekly Change

-14.07M oz

(-13.8%)

Registered Δ

-600,662.79 oz

-540,734.24 oz at Loomis

Private Storage

279.24M oz

-640,576.06 oz at HSBC

Buyers Taking Delivery

4,825 contracts

24 house · 70 customer

Musical Chairs Index
8claimants per chair
8 people want 1 silver unit
If everyone demanded delivery, only 13.2% could get their metal
Calculated by dividing all outstanding paper claims by the physical metal available for delivery.

Feb 18, 2026 Flow Breakdown

Warehouse Flows

Received+7.2K oz
Withdrawn-1.39M oz
Net Flow🔻 -1.39M oz

Inventory Changes

Registered🔻 -601K oz
Eligible🔻 -784K oz
Net Change🔻 -1.39M oz

Who's Betting on Silver?

Every week, the CFTC reveals how big players are positioned in futures markets

Hedge funds expect silver to rise, but reduced bets

They closed 414 long contracts since the last report, taking some profit.

Speculators (Hedge Funds)
LONG 4,569
Betting on silver going UP
↓ 414 contracts vs previous report
Commercials (Producers & Refiners)
SHORT 16,790
Hedging production (normal)

Net contracts over time (positive = bullish bets, negative = bearish bets)

  • Commercials
  • Hedge Funds
Mar 11Apr 1Apr 22May 20Jun 17Jul 8Jul 29Aug 26Sep 23Oct 21Nov 18Dec 16Jan 13Feb 10-50K-25K025K50K
Data from CFTC report dated February 10, 2026Updated weekly on Fridays

Depository Watch

12 COMEX-approved silver vaults

Wed, Feb 18, 2026

Net physical outflows

Physically Added

7K oz

Physically Left

1.39M oz
VaultRegisteredEligible
JPM12.00M oz143.85M oz
Brink's15.78M oz(+5K oz)39.34M oz(-596K oz)
LoomisDrain6.31M oz(-541K oz)24.03M oz(+541K oz)
CNT12.17M oz14.02M oz(-156K oz)
Asahi23.30M oz(-65K oz)2.75M oz(+65K oz)
HSBC3.41M oz20.26M oz(-641K oz)
MTB6.22M oz12.45M oz
Delaware1.53M oz16.28M oz(+7K oz)
StoneX6.23M oz1.54M oz(-5K oz)
IDS273.8K oz3.64M oz
Malca-Amit949.6K oz1.07M oz
Malca-Amit Armored0 oz0 oz
Total88.19M oz(-601K oz)279.24M oz(-784K oz)

Silver Inventory (6 Weeks)

Registered (deliverable) overlaid on total inventory — track the drain from zero

  • Registered
  • Total (Reg + Eligible)
Jan 8Jan 12Jan 14Jan 16Jan 21Jan 23Jan 27Jan 29Feb 2Feb 4Feb 6Feb 10Feb 12Feb 180M150M300M450M600M

Daily Delivery Ledger

Recent delivery activity showing who is taking physical metal

DateIssuesStopsHouse StopsCustomer StopsQty StoppedApprox Value
Feb 1950507(Bank)43250.0K oz$20.7M
Feb 1815155(Bank)1075.0K oz$6.2M
Feb 17292912(Bank)17145.0K oz$12.0M
Feb 113315.0K oz$1.2M
Feb 102042041.02M oz$84.4M
Feb 94294292.15M oz$177.6M
Feb 66346343.17M oz$262.4M
Feb 5181181905.0K oz$74.9M
Feb 46086083.04M oz$251.7M
Feb 3190190950.0K oz$78.6M
Feb 22512511.25M oz$103.9M
Jan 306336333.17M oz$262.0M
Jan 29132831.42M oz$117.1M
Jan 282462461.23M oz$101.8M

Frequently Asked Questions

Report Archive

Browse historical COMEX warehouse & delivery reports

30-Day Summary (20 reports)

Registered Δ

-26,071,715.736 oz

(-22.8%)

Net Flow

-54,887,002.15 oz

Total Received

+3.66M oz

Total Withdrawn

-58.54M oz

Total Stops

4,753

17 house

Showing 20 reportsData from CME Group

Verified CME Group Sources

We built an automated pipeline that monitors CME Group's official reports every 30 minutes. When CME publishes new data (usually after 6 PM ET), our system detects the change via content-hashing and pulls the updated numbers within minutes. Every version gets archived so we can track historical changes. No manual data entry, no third-party feeds — straight from the source.

CME overwrites these static URLs daily; our system captures the unique state of each file as it's published.

Inventory data typically updates after 6:00 PM ET on trading days.

Why We Built This Tracker

By Austin & Matt — tracking COMEX warehouse data since 2022

We started tracking COMEX deliveries because the mainstream financial media rarely covers what's actually happening in physical metal markets. COMEX is where futures contracts for gold, silver, copper, and other metals are traded — but here's what most people miss: while most contracts settle in cash, some buyers demand actual physical metal.

Why We Watch Deliveries

In our years covering these markets on the podcast, we've learned that delivery data tells a story paper trading doesn't. When buyers "stop" contracts for delivery, they're saying "I want the real thing." High delivery demand relative to warehouse inventory often precedes price moves that catch paper traders off guard.

Our "Squeeze" Framework

After analyzing hundreds of delivery reports, we look for three signals together: declining registered inventory + elevated stops + banks (house accounts) taking delivery. When we see this pattern, it often means the smart money is quietly accumulating physical metal ahead of something.

Sources: Data pulled directly from CME Group official warehouse reports. We verify every data point against the source files linked above. Questions? Hit us up on Twitter/X or catch our weekly metals breakdown on the YouTube channel.

This is commentary based on publicly available data, not financial advice. We're just two guys who think physical delivery data matters more than Wall Street wants you to know.