COT reports: Long positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 256,595 contracts on 27 January 2026, versus 279,128 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 838 observations overall in the weekly time series shown in the graph above. The series covers the time period stretching from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Check out a few simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 208,353 contracts; they hit a trough of 3,485 on 16 March 2010; they hit a maximum of 598,578 on 13 December 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 263184.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 279128.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 256595.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by other 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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