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 195,777 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 196,833 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 854 records in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The time range covered by the series goes from January 2010 to May 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions reached their maximum of 336,675 contracts on 21 February 2012; they hit a trough of 0 on 18 May 2021; they were equal on average to 70,520.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 179083.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 196833.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 195777.0 |
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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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