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 -121,571 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to -129,254 on 9 June 2026.
Sample. There are 858 data points overall in the weekly time series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the period going from January 2010 to June 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few summary statistics calculated on the full sample: positions hit a maximum of 594,688 contracts on 13 December 2016; they registered a minimum of -309,134 on 15 December 2015; they were equal on average to 99,516.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | -111489.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | -129254.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | -121571.0 |
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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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