COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by other reporting traders in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 263,184 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 329,047 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series presented in the chart has 836 data points. The period covered by the series extends from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean of 208,210 contracts; they peaked at 598,578 on 13 December 2016; they reached a trough of 3,485 on 16 March 2010.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 317889.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 329047.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 263184.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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