COT reports: Net long positions held by money managers 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), net long positions held by money managers in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" stood at 189,701 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 175,130 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 871 data points. The span of time covered by the series goes from January 2010 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at a few statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 431,306 contracts; they reached a maximum of 1,182,206 on 4 June 2013; they recorded a bottom of -186,170 on 21 February 2023.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 161,392 |
| 2026-09-08 | 175,130 |
| 2026-09-15 | 189,701 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by money managers 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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