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How best to take advantage if natural gas prices have turned the corner? Not the nat gas ETF...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012, 6:55 PM ETHow best to take advantage if natural gas prices have turned the corner? Not the nat gas ETF (UNG), which suffers high costs from rolling positions forward as contracts expire; E&P firms are high spenders, and low gas prices have prompted them to produce more higher-priced oil. The better choice could be power producers with high leverage to gas prices, such as NRG Energy (NRG), Liam Denning writes.
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Boy, if someone can find a way to 'tweak' a price, they aren't shy. Watch out for those 3X ETF's
Capt. Brian
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They've already more than doubled from the lows of last spring,and while they might go higher for a short time due to seasonal factors I don't think one can say "turn the corner" unless one means turning the corner to start back down again.
Utilities have slowed their switch away from coal;in fact,some are going back to coal.
I would argue that the next major change will be downward,esp after the winter heating season is over. which is only a few months from now. I would definitely not now be buying a consumer of gas such as a power company,nor would I buy an e&p at this point., In my own portfolio I've been a net seller of gas e&p's in the past few weeks.
For those who want to be long gas,i think the ship has sailed (or the gas has leaked,to coin a metaphor). Better to stand aside until they drop again,which shouldn't be too far in the future.
imho