COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 316,728 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 307,456 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 836 observations overall in the weekly time series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the span of time going from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Check out some statistics calculated on the full sample: positions averaged 388,751 contracts; they reached a trough of 165,878 on 2 August 2016; they attained a maximum of 799,704 on 21 February 2012.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 280356.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 307456.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 316728.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers 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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