COT reports: Net long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" stood at -2,154,728 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to -2,158,833 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 867 observations overall. The period covered by the series goes from January 2010 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics calculated on the full sample: positions hit a minimum of -4,091,077 contracts on 27 July 2021; they peaked at -648,444 on 13 July 2010; they were equal on average to -2,262,442.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | -2149385.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | -2158833.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | -2154728.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by swap dealers 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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