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 49,247 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 51,141 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 854 records in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the time range going from January 2010 to May 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions hit a trough of 4,844 contracts on 28 February 2012; they reached their maximum of 104,297 on 25 November 2025; they averaged 38,231.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 52639.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 51141.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 49247.0 |
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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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