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 488,224 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 478,155 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 867 data points overall. The time period covered by the series extends from January 2010 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few summary statistics calculated on the full sample: positions reached their maximum of 488,224 contracts on 18 August 2026; they reached a trough of 0 on 18 May 2021; they had a mean of 74,590.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 461700.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 478155.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 488224.0 |
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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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