COT reports: Short positions held by money managers 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 money managers in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 86,027 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 93,882 on 10 February 2026.
Sample. In the weekly series presented in the plot, there are 841 observations in total. The time range covered by the series stretches from January 2010 to February 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions reached a minimum of 0 contracts on 18 May 2021; they achieved a maximum of 336,675 on 21 February 2012; they had a mean of 69,467.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 109730.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 93882.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 86027.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by money managers 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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