COT reports: Net long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" stood at 1,996,226 contracts on 17 February 2026, versus 1,966,213 on 10 February 2026.
Sample. There are 841 data points overall in the weekly time series shown in the graph above. The series covers the period stretching from January 2010 to February 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 1,699,587 contracts; they peaked at 3,003,059 on 29 March 2022; they recorded a minimum of 309,804 on 9 October 2012.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 1937738.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 1966213.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 1996226.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by producers and merchants 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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