COT reports: Long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 737,999 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 722,065 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 836 data points in total. The series covers the time range stretching from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions had an average value of 421,065 contracts; they hit a trough of 34,170 on 29 July 2014; they recorded a maximum of 778,058 on 24 July 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 696936.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 722065.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 737999.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by swap dealers 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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