COT reports: Long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 739,087 contracts on 17 February 2026, versus 717,587 on 10 February.
Sample. There are 841 data points overall in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The series covers the period stretching from January 2010 to February 2026.
History. Have a look at some descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions averaged 422,909 contracts; they achieved a maximum of 778,058 on 24 July 2018; they reached their lowest level of 34,170 on 29 July 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 711330.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 717587.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 739087.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by swap dealers 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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