COT reports: Net long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 1,942,497 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 1,945,648 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 836 records in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The time span covered by the series extends from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to 1,697,882 contracts; they hit a minimum of 309,804 on 9 October 2012; they achieved a maximum of 3,003,059 on 29 March 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 1928886.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 1945648.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 1942497.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by producers and merchants 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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