COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers 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), compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" stood at 1,055,150 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 1,127,031 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 838 data points in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The series covers the period extending from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at some summary statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions reached their highest level of 1,482,623 contracts on 3 May 2011; they reached a minimum of 79,670 on 29 September 2020; they had an average value of 596,761.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 1112398.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 1127031.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 1055150.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers 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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