COT reports: Short positions held by all 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" stood at 7,781,593 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 7,700,448 on 10 February.
Sample. There are 841 records in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The time span covered by the series is from January 2010 to February 2026.
History. Check out a few statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 5,525,567 contracts; they reached their maximum of 8,129,597 on 25 November 2025; they registered a minimum of 3,703,818 on 2 February 2010.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 7638543.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 7700448.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 7781593.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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