COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" stood at 4,436,017 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus 4,348,906 on 8 September.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 871 observations overall. The time period covered by the series stretches from January 2010 to September 2026.
History. Here are some statistics we computed on the full sample: positions recorded a minimum of 1,287,607 contracts on 2 February 2010; they recorded a maximum of 4,640,948 on 28 April 2026; they had an average value of 2,997,095.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 4,265,170 |
| 2026-09-08 | 4,348,906 |
| 2026-09-15 | 4,436,017 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by producers and merchants 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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