Natural Gas on TradingView: NG1! and UNG

About natural gas futures

The benchmark US price is Henry Hub, a pipeline hub in Louisiana. NYMEX natural gas futures (NG) cover 10,000 MMBtu each, priced in dollars per MMBtu. Natural gas is known for big seasonal swings and sharp moves around weekly storage reports. Many CFD brokers offer a “NATGAS” product priced from these futures.

Why don’t these prices match?

• Spot and CFD prices (like natural gas CFDs) come from a broker or data provider. Every broker quotes slightly differently and adds its own spread, so your broker’s chart can differ a little from TradingView’s.
• Futures (like NG1!) are contracts for a future date. Their price includes the cost of carrying the position until expiry, so they usually sit a little away from spot, and the gap shrinks as expiry approaches.
• ETFs trade as shares on a stock exchange, at a fraction of the market’s price, and only during stock market hours.

What does “1!” mean on TradingView?

A ticker ending in 1! is TradingView’s continuous contract: it always shows the front (nearest) futures month and switches to the next contract when it rolls over. 2! is the next month after that. Because each contract has a different price, the chart can jump at the roll. To chart a single expiry instead, search for the dated contract.

Trading hours

NYMEX natural gas futures trade almost 24 hours a day from Sunday evening to Friday afternoon (US time), with a daily one-hour break. UNG trades during US stock market hours. Our live stock market hours and forex market hours clocks show what’s open in your time zone.

Which one should you use?

For the actual market price, NG1!. In a stock account, UNG, keeping its long-term drift in mind. With a CFD broker, its own natural gas feed.

Building a list of these? Add them to a watchlist with the Watchlist Builder, and see our symbol format guide for how TradingView writes tickers.

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