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" stood at 7,870,049 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 7,798,346 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 836 records in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time range extending from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at some descriptive statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 5,511,976 contracts; they recorded a minimum of 3,703,818 on 2 February 2010; they hit a maximum of 8,129,597 on 25 November 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 7787116.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 7798346.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 7870049.0 |
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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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