COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" stood at 202,747 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 170,523 on 6 January.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 836 data points overall. The series covers the span of time going from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at some summary statistics computed on the full sample: positions recorded their maximum of 359,180 contracts on 24 January 2023; they reached a trough of 1,341 on 20 December 2016; they had a mean of 104,540.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 180157.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 170523.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 202747.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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