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United States 12 Month Natural Gas Fund, LP (UNL)

Commodities Focused | Exchange Traded Fund | NYSEArca
5.88 USD -0.06 (-1.077%) ⇩ (Aug. 28, 2026, 3:55 p.m. EDT)
After hours: 5.88

Short-term:★★☆☆☆Long-term:★★⯪☆☆Dividends:☆☆☆☆☆
Hot Take | Aug. 22, 2026, 3:27 a.m. EDT

The short-term outlook is skewed bullish due to aggressive speculative positioning on the upside, yet the underlying asset is fundamentally broken. As a commodity fund tracking natural gas, UNL suffers from a structural flaw: it resets annually, meaning investors lose their entire principal value every August. The recent price action confirms this decay, with the fund trading near its 52-week low after a massive drop from its 2022 peak. While the options market is pricing in a rally—likely fueled by the Iran crisis and seasonal demand fears—the lack of dividends and the inevitable annual reset make this a terrible long-term hold. The statistical forecast models a slight downside drift, aligning with the reality that the fund's price will likely collapse again in August regardless of the commodity's performance. This is a high-risk, short-duration trade for weathering a specific event, not an investment.

Model Selection — Backtest MAE (log-scale, lower is better)
ModelMAE
AutoTheta ✓0.067631
MSTL0.071155
AutoETS0.073085
AutoARIMA0.073085

Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoTheta

Forecast Reliability
Score 44%
H-stat 3.32
Ljung-Box p 0.000
Jarque-Bera p 0.042
Excess Kurtosis -0.03

As of Aug. 22, 2026, 3:27 a.m. EDT: Speculators are overwhelmingly bullish, positioning heavy out-of-the-money call volume at strikes significantly above current prices (e.g., 13.00 strike shows massive open interest relative to volume), while put activity is virtually non-existent. This asymmetry suggests a strong bet on a sharp upward move driven by geopolitical tensions, despite the underlying asset being a commodity fund.


Info Dump

Attribute Value
All Time High 57.0
All Time Low 5.78
Ask 5.99
Ask Size 100
Average Daily Volume10 Day 64,200
Average Daily Volume3 Month 50,880
Average Volume 50,880
Average Volume10Days 64,200
Beta3 Year 0.92
Bid 5.8
Bid Size 5,000
Category Commodities Focused
Crypto Tradeable 0
Currency USD
Custom Price Alert Confidence HIGH
Day High 5.92
Day Low 5.8501
Dividend Yield 0.0
Esg Populated 0
Exchange PCX
Exchange Data Delayed By 0
Exchange Timezone Name America/New_York
Exchange Timezone Short Name EDT
Fifty Day Average 6.092
Fifty Day Average Change -0.21600008
Fifty Day Average Change Percent -0.03545635
Fifty Two Week Change Percent -23.35484
Fifty Two Week High 9.11
Fifty Two Week High Change -3.2339997
Fifty Two Week High Change Percent -0.3549945
Fifty Two Week Low 5.78
Fifty Two Week Low Change 0.09599972
Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent 0.016608948
Fifty Two Week Range 5.78 - 9.11
First Trade Date Milliseconds 1,262,615,400,000
Five Year Average Return -0.1276058
Full Exchange Name NYSEArca
Fullday Change -0.0640001
Fullday Change Percent -1.07744
Fullday Price 5.876
Fund Family USCF Investments
Fund Inception Date 1,258,502,400
Gmt Off Set Milliseconds -14,400,000
Has Pre Post Market Data 1
Language en-US
Legal Type Exchange Traded Fund
Long Business Summary The Benchmark Futures Contracts are the futures contracts on natural gas as traded on the NYMEX that are the near month contract to expire, and the contracts for the following 11 months, for a total of 12 consecutive months’ contracts, except when the near month contract is within two weeks of expiration.
Long Name United States 12 Month Natural Gas Fund, LP
Market us_market
Market State CLOSED
Max Age 86,400
Message Board Id finmb_35492633
Nav Price 5.884
Net Assets 16,160,669.0
Net Expense Ratio 1.65
Open 5.92
Post Market Change 0.0
Post Market Change Percent 0.0
Post Market Price 5.876
Post Market Time 1,787,951,100
Previous Close 5.94
Price Hint 2
Quote Type ETF
Region US
Regular Market Change -0.0640001
Regular Market Change Percent -1.07744
Regular Market Day High 5.92
Regular Market Day Low 5.8501
Regular Market Day Range 5.8501 - 5.92
Regular Market Open 5.92
Regular Market Previous Close 5.94
Regular Market Price 5.876
Regular Market Time 1,787,946,933
Regular Market Volume 61,563
Short Name United States 12 Month Natural
Source Interval 15
Symbol UNL
Three Year Average Return -0.19507721
Total Assets 16,160,669
Tradeable 0
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 0.0
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield 0.0
Trailing Peg Ratio None
Trailing Three Month Nav Returns -8.12097
Trailing Three Month Returns -8.12097
Triggerable 1
Two Hundred Day Average 6.88735
Two Hundred Day Average Change -1.0113502
Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent -0.14684169
Type Disp ETF
Volume 61,563
Yield 0.0
Ytd Return -18.43827