COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by money managers in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 676,898 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus 669,705 on 8 September.
Sample. In the weekly time series plotted above, there are 871 data points overall. The series covers the time range stretching from January 2010 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at some descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions hit a peak of 1,218,100 contracts on 24 June 2025; they recorded a minimum of 65,644 on 6 August 2019; they had a mean value of 507,785.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 632,651 |
| 2026-09-08 | 669,705 |
| 2026-09-15 | 676,898 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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