The United States Natural Gas Fund is suddenly looking very good now for buy and hold investors.

Barron's reports that in the past buy-and-hold folk were advised against holding the fund because its returns are tied to the futures market.

However, the financial newspaper reports, the ETF has been working for this segment because the market's "con tango" phenomenon, in particular "the upward-sloping curve of gas futures contracts that usually acts as a headwind against commodity-futures ETFs over longer periods, has flattened out. "

Read more in Barron's.  

Edited by: Tommy Fernandez


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