COT reports: Net long positions held by money managers 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), net long positions held by money managers in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" stood at 140,230 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 168,923 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 867 observations in the weekly series displayed in the chart above. The time period covered by the series extends from January 2010 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at a few simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions reached a minimum of -186,170 contracts on 21 February 2023; they recorded their highest level of 1,182,206 on 4 June 2013; they averaged 432,533.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 158105.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 168923.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 140230.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by money managers 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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