COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders 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 other reporting traders in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 478,598 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 444,782 on 6 January.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 836 data points overall. The series covers the period going from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few summary statistics computed on the whole sample: positions reached their highest level of 882,714 contracts on 23 April 2013; they hit a trough of 183,575 on 5 November 2019; they had a mean of 439,146.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 469448.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 444782.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 478598.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders 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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