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United States 12 Month Natural Gas Fund

  • Evidence of Booming Natural Gas

    By Joshua Bondy - October 3, 2012 | Tickers: PTR, RDS-B, RDS-A, UNL, UNG

    It is easy to make predictions about a market but facts are necessary to confirm those predictions. The latest energy projects in North America show serious growth in the natural gas market. The decision to relax the EPA rules and growth of fracking has led to a boom in U.S. natural gas supplies while Mexico's monopolized gas market has created serious supply shortages. Mexico has proposed new pipelines more »

  • Arbitrage with Poorly Performing Commodity ETFs

    By Joshua Bondy - September 20, 2012 | Tickers: ECA, FCG, UNL, UNG

    The perils of investing in commodity ETFs which hold their assets in futures are well known. Due to the cost of rolling front month futures based commodity ETFs like United States Natural Gas Fund, LP (NYSEMKT: UNG) and United States 12 Month Natural Gas Fund (NYSEMKT: UNL) post serious tracking errors over time frames of a couple years. Yet these tracking errors can possibly be used to do a type more »

  • Is Natural Gas the Next Bull Market?

    By Joshua Bondy - September 18, 2012 | Tickers: UCO, UNL, UNG, USO

    Basic economics is rather simple; supply and demand interact and together form price. With the industrialization of the developing world and the massive rise in per capita GDP seen over the past decades the demand for many primary commodities has gone through the roof. In the current environment with China's and India's industrial production slowing and weakness starting to appear in U.S. manufacturing production it would be more »

  • Playing the Natural Gas Downturn by Investing in Coal?

    By Joshua Bondy - August 18, 2012 | Tickers: ANR, ACI, BTU, UNL, UNG

    As the price of natural gas has plummeted the demand for relatively expensive coal has decreased. The supply demand imbalance in these commodity markets will resolve itself but the process will not be instantaneous. Shutting down mines and reducing production in the natural gas market does not occur over night. There are a number of ways which one could use to take advantage of fluctuations in coal or natural gas more »