COT reports: Net long positions held by non-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), net long positions held by non-reporting traders in natural gas futures of the kind "NAT GAS ICE LD1 - ICE FUTURES ENERGY DIV" stood at 16,084 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 14,819 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 838 observations in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The series covers the span of time stretching from January 2010 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions reached their highest level of 77,698 contracts on 29 October 2024; they reached a trough of -29,172 on 26 February 2013; they averaged 19,029.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 15618.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 14819.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 16084.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by non-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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