COT reports: Long positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 135,852 contracts on 16 June 2026, versus 130,920 on 9 June.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 858 observations overall. The series covers the time range stretching from January 2010 to June 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few simple statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 207,509 contracts; they recorded a minimum of 3,485 on 16 March 2010; they recorded their maximum of 598,578 on 13 December 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 126328.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 130920.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 135852.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by other 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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