COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by producers and merchants in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 4,151,263 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 4,150,399 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 838 data points overall in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The span of time covered by the series is from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached a maximum of 4,232,033 contracts on 26 April 2022; they registered a minimum of 1,287,607 on 2 February 2010; they were equal on average to 2,941,136.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 4068877.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 4150399.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 4151263.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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