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 163,761 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 146,195 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 867 records overall. The series covers the time range going from January 2010 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some statistics computed on the full sample: positions hit a trough of 3,485 contracts on 16 March 2010; they recorded their highest level of 598,578 on 13 December 2016; they had an average value of 206,923.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 145174.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 146195.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 163761.0 |
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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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