COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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), compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 503,895 contracts on 31 March 2026, versus 509,836 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. There are 847 observations in the weekly time series presented in the graph above. The period covered by the series goes from January 2010 to March 2026.
History. Take a look at a few statistics we computed on the full sample: positions attained a maximum of 882,714 contracts on 23 April 2013; they reached their lowest level of 183,575 on 5 November 2019; they had a mean value of 440,145.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 515976.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 509836.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 503895.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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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