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 2,182,016 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 2,123,629 on 10 February 2026.
Sample. There are 841 observations overall in the weekly time series displayed in the graph above. The series covers the span of time going from January 2010 to February 2026.
History. Here are some summary statistics computed on the whole sample: positions averaged 1,245,630 contracts; they reached their minimum of 824,696 on 1 February 2011; they recorded their highest level of 2,240,250 on 25 November 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 2050282.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 2123629.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 2182016.0 |
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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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