COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by other reporting traders in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 56,991 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 115,339 on 10 February 2026.
Sample. There are 841 observations overall in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The series covers the time range stretching from January 2010 to February 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions reached a minimum of -309,134 contracts on 15 December 2015; they recorded their maximum of 594,688 on 13 December 2016; they had a mean of 103,502.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 115776.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 115339.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 56991.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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