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 277,855 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 246,698 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 871 data points overall in the weekly series presented in the chart above. The series covers the time period stretching from January 2010 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to 110,094 contracts; they recorded their maximum of 359,180 on 24 January 2023; they recorded a minimum of 1,341 on 20 December 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 226,561 |
| 2026-09-08 | 246,698 |
| 2026-09-15 | 277,855 |
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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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