Investors Buy Large Volume of United States Natural Gas Fund Call Options (NYSEARCA:UNG)

United States Natural Gas Fund LP (NYSEARCA:UNG) saw unusually large options trading activity on Tuesday. Investors purchased 42,701 call options on the stock. This is an increase of approximately 32% compared to the typical daily volume of 32,266 call options.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Realta Investment Advisors lifted its holdings in shares of United States Natural Gas Fund by 14.3% during the 1st quarter. Realta Investment Advisors now owns 56,000 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $657,000 after buying an additional 7,000 shares during the last quarter. SG Americas Securities LLC raised its holdings in United States Natural Gas Fund by 50.7% in the 1st quarter. SG Americas Securities LLC now owns 53,210 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock worth $624,000 after acquiring an additional 17,900 shares during the period. Chiron Capital Management LLC grew its position in shares of United States Natural Gas Fund by 248.4% in the third quarter. Chiron Capital Management LLC now owns 45,303 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $470,000 after purchasing an additional 32,300 shares during the last quarter. Compound Planning Inc. grew its position in shares of United States Natural Gas Fund by 23.5% in the first quarter. Compound Planning Inc. now owns 25,782 shares of the exchange traded fund’s stock valued at $302,000 after purchasing an additional 4,901 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Axiom Investment Management LLC bought a new position in shares of United States Natural Gas Fund in the first quarter worth about $229,000.

United States Natural Gas Fund Trading Down 1.2%

Shares of United States Natural Gas Fund stock traded down $0.12 on Tuesday, reaching $10.34. 10,560,427 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 14,795,371. United States Natural Gas Fund has a fifty-two week low of $9.55 and a fifty-two week high of $17.02. The firm has a market capitalization of $460.42 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -15.04 and a beta of 0.21. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $10.49 and a 200-day moving average price of $10.81.

About United States Natural Gas Fund

United States Natural Gas Fund, LP is a limited partnership. The Company is a commodity pool that issues limited partnership interests (shares) traded on the NYSE Arca, Inc (the NYSE Arca). The investment objective of the Company is for the daily changes in percentage terms of its shares’ per share net asset value (NAV) to reflect the daily changes in percentage terms of the spot price of natural gas delivered at the Henry Hub, Louisiana, as measured by the daily changes in the price of the futures contracts on natural gas traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange (the NYMEX) that is the near month contract to expire, except when the near month contract is within two weeks of expiration, in which case it will be measured by the futures contract that is the next month contract to expire (the Benchmark Futures Contract), less its expenses.