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" were 216,972 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 160,768 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 873 observations in total. The time span covered by the series is from January 2010 to September 2026.
History. Here are a few simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions averaged 430,751 contracts; they attained a maximum of 1,182,206 on 4 June 2013; they reached their lowest level of -186,170 on 21 February 2023.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 189701.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 160768.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 216972.0 |
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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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