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 -95,333 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to -66,866 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 871 observations overall in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The time span covered by the series goes from January 2010 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions recorded a maximum of 594,688 contracts on 13 December 2016; they reached their lowest level of -309,134 on 15 December 2015; they averaged 96,741.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | -15,275.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | -66,866.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | -95,333.0 |
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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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