COT reports: Net long positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" stood at 60,437 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 158,524 on 6 January.
Sample. In the weekly time series shown in the figure, there are 836 data points overall. The series covers the period going from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions attained a maximum of 594,688 contracts on 13 December 2016; they hit a minimum of -309,134 on 15 December 2015; they had a mean value of 103,671.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 137732.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 158524.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 60437.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by other 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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