COT reports: Total open positions (open interest) 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), total open positions (open interest) in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 7,891,227 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 7,822,043 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 836 data points in the weekly time series displayed in the figure above. The period covered by the series is from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions reached a maximum of 8,202,201 contracts on 25 November 2025; they recorded a minimum of 3,720,691 on 2 March 2010; they had a mean value of 5,531,034.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 7810169.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 7822043.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 7891227.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Total open positions (open interest) 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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