COT reports: Net long positions held by non-reporting traders 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 non-reporting traders in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 15,618 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 11,576 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 836 observations overall in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The period covered by the series extends from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to 19,038 contracts; they reached a trough of -29,172 on 26 February 2013; they hit a maximum of 77,698 on 29 October 2024.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 6883.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 11576.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 15618.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by non-reporting traders 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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