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 418,764 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 417,959 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are a total of 873 observations. The series covers the time span extending from January 2010 to September 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean of 77,262 contracts; they recorded their highest level of 494,575 on 8 September 2026; they recorded a bottom of 0 on 18 May 2021.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 487197.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 417959.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 418764.0 |
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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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