NatGas price
How natural gas moves through the day
Average NatGas range in each session as a share of its price, measured on every trading day since 2016.
Average range by session
Busiest hours (UTC)
Natural gas moves most from 12:00 to 15:00 UTC. The quietest hour starts at 02:00 UTC.
Size a natural gas trade
One standard lot of NatGas is 10,000 MMBtu on most brokers. Check your broker's contract size before you trade.
See your own NatGas trades on this chart
Connect your broker once. Every natural gas entry and exit lands on the chart, your journal and rules sit beside it, and Edge learns from your trades to show you the one thing to fix next. Then practice it on natural gas in the backtester before you trade it live.
NatGas questions
NatGas is the price of one million British thermal units (MMBtu) of US natural gas in US dollars, quoted as a cash CFD that follows the futures market.
Each broker quotes its own bid and ask from its own liquidity providers, so prices can differ a little from broker to broker. The prices here are indicative bid quotes. Spreads also widen around big news and when the market opens.
NatGas trades nearly 24 hours a day on weekdays, with a short daily break around 17:00 New York time, and is closed at the weekend.
On most brokers one standard lot of NatGas is 10,000 MMBtu, so a move of 1.00 in the price is worth $10,000.00 a lot and 0.01 lots moves $100.00. Check your broker's contract size before you trade.
Weather, the weekly US storage report, production and exports of liquefied gas.