COT reports: Short positions held by other reporting traders 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 other reporting traders in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 193,585 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 261,923 on 12 May.
Sample. This weekly time series has 854 records. The series covers the span of time extending from January 2010 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 107,267 contracts; they hit a maximum of 359,180 on 24 January 2023; they reached a minimum of 1,341 on 20 December 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 256888.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 261923.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 193585.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other reporting traders 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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