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" stood at 2,421,291 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 2,365,755 on 12 May.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 854 observations in total. The series covers the time period going from January 2010 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few simple statistics computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 1,261,026 contracts; they hit a minimum of 824,696 on 1 February 2011; they reached a maximum of 2,421,291 on 19 May 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 2329922.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 2365755.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 2421291.0 |
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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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