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 2,146,490 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 2,305,187 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. There are 847 data points in the weekly series displayed in the chart above. The series covers the time range stretching from January 2010 to March 2026.
History. Check out a few simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions hit a maximum of 3,003,059 contracts on 29 March 2022; they hit a minimum of 309,804 on 9 October 2012; they had an average value of 1,702,675.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 2140818.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 2305187.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 2146490.0 |
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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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