

First Trust Natural Gas ETF (NYSEARCA:FCG) and United States Natural Gas Fund (NYSE:UNG) both pitch themselves as ways to play natural gas, yet they have produced wildly different outcomes for investors who held them.

U.S. natural gas futures held steady on Thursday as the market waited for direction from a federal report expected to show energy firms added a near-normal amount of gas to storage last week.

Anyone holding the United States Natural Gas Fund (NYSEARCA:UNG) is making a specific bet: that a rising Henry Hub spot price will translate into a rising fund price.

U.S. natural gas futures rose as weather models overnight added a little more heat to the near-term outlook, lifting expected cooling demand.

The First Trust Natural Gas ETF (NYSEARCA:FCG) and the United States Natural Gas Fund (NYSE:UNG) both let investors express a view on natural gas through fundamentally different mechanics.

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U.S. natural gas futures were lower with the market more focused on the loss of weather-driven demand than the U.S.-Iran agreement to end the Middle East conflict.

U.S. natural gas futures were steady with a milder near-term weather outlook partly compensated by recovering LNG feedgas flows.
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