Open interest in natural gas futures markets noted traders scaled back their open interest positions for the fourth straight session on Wednesday, now by around 22.6K contracts. Volume, instead, resumed the uptrend and went up by nearly 48K contracts.

Natural Gas remains well supported around $2.00

Wednesday’s daily retracement in prices of the natural gas was in tandem with rising open interest, which removes strength from further retracement in the very near term. In the meantime, the 2023 low near $1.97 per MMBtu continues to emerge as a solid contention for the time being.