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 4,068,877 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 4,006,596 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 836 data points in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time span going from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some summary statistics calculated on the full sample: positions averaged 2,938,242 contracts; they reached their highest level of 4,232,033 on 26 April 2022; they reached their lowest level of 1,287,607 on 2 February 2010.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 3977880.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 4006596.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 4068877.0 |
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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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