COT reports: Short positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 2,309,448 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 2,418,226 on 22 September.
Sample. The weekly series displayed in the chart has a total of 873 data points. The period covered by the series extends from January 2010 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions reached their lowest level of 824,696 contracts on 1 February 2011; they achieved a maximum of 2,421,291 on 19 May 2026; they had an average value of 1,285,107.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 2411661.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 2418226.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 2309448.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by producers and merchants 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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