COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in natural gas futures: NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Natural gas 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), compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" stood at 1,112,398 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 1,186,804 on 6 January.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 836 data points overall. The series covers the time span extending from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at some simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions hit a trough of 79,670 contracts on 29 September 2020; they recorded their maximum of 1,482,623 on 3 May 2011; they were equal on average to 595,579.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 1130312.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 1186804.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 1112398.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in natural gas 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: NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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