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 270,686 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 265,130 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 847 data points. The time span covered by the series is from January 2010 to March 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean of 105,985 contracts; they reached their maximum of 359,180 on 24 January 2023; they reached their minimum of 1,341 on 20 December 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 204837.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 265130.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 270686.0 |
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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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