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 876,647 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 790,020 on 6 January.
Sample. This weekly time series has 836 data points. The series covers the span of time going from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at some summary statistics computed on the full sample: positions reached a trough of 65,644 contracts on 6 August 2019; they attained a maximum of 1,218,100 on 24 June 2025; they had an average value of 501,946.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 907412.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 790020.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 876647.0 |
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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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