Overnight charge on Natural Gas have killed my account profits. Any advice on trading please?

[DeanT-1964]

I have made a small profit on trading Natural Gas but this has been wiped out by overnight charges. Can you help with a basic strategy to avoid these charges? Also what time are trading hours for gas on the ig Platform?

 

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If you are keeping bets open for more than a few days it is usually more cost efficient to make a fixed expiry bet. Sometimes they are referred to as Futures or Forwards bets. There is no overnight charge, but the spread is a bit wider, and the bets expire on a specified date. There is some info about the charges here. To see the chart and info for these bets, click the "Futures" drop down next to "Undated" (aka "Spot") in the window header.

Natural Gas does not have any trading hours restrictions. Some bets do, they have an extra section called "Trading Hours" at the top of the Info tab in the side bar. See "Cocoa - London" for an example