COT reports: Short positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 2,126,380 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 2,060,948 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 836 records in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The time range covered by the series goes from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some summary statistics computed on the full sample: positions attained a maximum of 2,240,250 contracts on 25 November 2025; they registered a minimum of 824,696 on 1 February 2011; they averaged 1,240,359.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 2048994.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 2060948.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 2126380.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by producers and merchants 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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