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" stood at 844,916 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 821,862 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 871 records overall in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The span of time covered by the series is from January 2010 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean of 436,306 contracts; they attained a maximum of 847,351 on 16 June 2026; they reached their minimum of 34,170 on 29 July 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 817,404 |
| 2026-09-08 | 821,862 |
| 2026-09-15 | 844,916 |
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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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