COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" stood at 3,555,491 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 3,576,536 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 836 records overall in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The span of time covered by the series stretches from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Check out a few simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded their highest level of 4,631,453 contracts on 27 July 2021; they reached a minimum of 782,178 on 1 June 2010; they had a mean of 2,674,212.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 3622661.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 3576536.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 3555491.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by swap dealers 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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