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" stood at 67,370 contracts on 31 March 2026, versus 64,583 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are a total of 847 records. The time range covered by the series stretches from January 2010 to March 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few summary statistics computed on the full sample: positions had an average value of 69,572 contracts; they recorded their maximum of 336,675 on 21 February 2012; they recorded a bottom of 0 on 18 May 2021.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 85469.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 64583.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 67370.0 |
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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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