COT reports: Short positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 21,178 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 23,697 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 836 observations in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The series covers the time period stretching from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions reached their lowest level of 553 contracts on 29 August 2023; they reached their highest level of 103,253 on 20 December 2011; they had an average value of 19,058.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 23053.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 23697.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 21178.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-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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