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 798,940 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 738,723 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 836 records overall in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The period covered by the series stretches from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions hit a trough of -186,170 contracts on 21 February 2023; they recorded their highest level of 1,182,206 on 4 June 2013; they were equal on average to 432,557.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 852224.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 738723.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 798940.0 |
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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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