COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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), compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" stood at 340,020 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 340,023 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 854 data points overall in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The series covers the time span extending from January 2010 to May 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions averaged 388,002 contracts; they hit a maximum of 799,704 on 21 February 2012; they recorded a bottom of 165,878 on 2 August 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 342366.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 340023.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 340020.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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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