COT reports: Short positions held by all 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 7,975,703 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 7,866,780 on 8 September.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are a total of 871 observations. The period covered by the series is from January 2010 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions had a mean of 5,607,607 contracts; they recorded a bottom of 3,703,818 on 2 February 2010; they hit a maximum of 8,148,977 on 28 April 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 7,793,540 |
| 2026-09-08 | 7,866,780 |
| 2026-09-15 | 7,975,703 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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