COT reports: Long positions held by money managers 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), long positions held by money managers in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 681,736 contracts on 31 March 2026, versus 673,966 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. In the weekly series shown in the chart, there are 847 data points. The time range covered by the series extends from January 2010 to March 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded their maximum of 1,218,100 contracts on 24 June 2025; they registered a minimum of 65,644 on 6 August 2019; they had a mean of 504,828.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 695713.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 673966.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 681736.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by money managers 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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