COT reports: Long positions held by non-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), long positions held by non-reporting traders in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 45,045 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 41,289 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 873 records in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The time period covered by the series goes from January 2010 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions reached their minimum of 4,844 contracts on 28 February 2012; they reached their highest level of 104,297 on 25 November 2025; they were equal on average to 38,409.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 38654.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 41289.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 45045.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by non-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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