COT reports: Long positions held by all 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" stood at 7,854,431 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 7,786,770 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 836 records overall. The span of time covered by the series goes from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some summary statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions hit a peak of 8,117,780 contracts on 23 December 2025; they reached their lowest level of 3,691,292 on 2 February 2010; they had a mean of 5,492,938.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 7780233.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 7786770.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 7854431.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all 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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