COT reports: Net long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" stood at -2,817,492 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to -2,854,471 on 6 January.
Sample. The weekly time series presented in the chart has a total of 836 data points. The time range covered by the series goes from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached their maximum of -648,444 contracts on 13 July 2010; they registered a minimum of -4,091,077 on 27 July 2021; they had an average value of -2,253,147.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | -2925725.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | -2854471.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | -2817492.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by swap dealers 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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