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" stood at 539,202 contracts on 17 February 2026, versus 523,262 on 10 February.
Sample. There are 841 observations in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The time range covered by the series goes from January 2010 to February 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few statistics calculated on the full sample: positions averaged 439,648 contracts; they reached their maximum of 882,714 on 23 April 2013; they recorded a bottom of 183,575 on 5 November 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 535656.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 523262.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 539202.0 |
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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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