COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 3,296,354 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 3,269,372 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. In the weekly series displayed in the figure, there are a total of 854 data points. The time range covered by the series stretches from January 2010 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions averaged 2,690,250 contracts; they reached their minimum of 782,178 on 1 June 2010; they achieved a maximum of 4,631,453 on 27 July 2021.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 3264377.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 3269372.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 3296354.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by swap dealers 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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