COT reports: Long positions held by all reporting traders 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 7,950,014 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 7,888,264 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 838 data points overall in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The span of time covered by the series goes from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at a few simple statistics computed on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 5,498,729 contracts; they reached a trough of 3,691,292 on 2 February 2010; they recorded their highest level of 8,117,780 on 23 December 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 7854431.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 7888264.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 7950014.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all reporting traders 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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