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 354,215 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 347,737 on 11 August.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 867 records. The series covers the time span extending from January 2010 to August 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions hit a peak of 799,704 contracts on 21 February 2012; they reached a minimum of 165,878 on 2 August 2016; they had a mean of 387,225.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 348291.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 347737.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 354215.0 |
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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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