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day chart shows NG is ranging.
margin requirement is very high !
this year, winter not so cold ? winter almost over.
soon NG day range will shrink drastically.
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Not sure where you are located, but winter just got started in the US. We're heading into the coldest calendar quarter of the year, which is why the margin reqs are so high at the CME on NG, considering what happened a couple months ago which got Optionsellers.com in so much trouble.