COT reports: Short positions held by money managers 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 money managers in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" stood at 77,707 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 51,297 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 836 records in the weekly series displayed in the graph above. The time span covered by the series extends from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some statistics computed on the entire sample: positions averaged 69,390 contracts; they reached a trough of 0 on 18 May 2021; they recorded their maximum of 336,675 on 21 February 2012.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 55188.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 51297.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 77707.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by money managers 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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