COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by swap dealers in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" were 740,324 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 748,086 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 838 observations overall in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The period covered by the series extends from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions reached their minimum of 34,170 contracts on 29 July 2014; they reached a maximum of 778,058 on 24 July 2018; they had a mean of 421,836.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 737999.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 748086.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 740324.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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