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What knowledge do novices need to know to make spot natural gas?
1, major political events

Natural gas is not only a general commodity, but also a strategic material, and its price and supply are greatly influenced by political forces and situations. In recent years, with the development of political multipolarization, economic globalization and production internationalization, competing for natural gas resources and controlling the natural gas market have become important reasons for natural gas turbulence and soaring natural gas prices.

2. Changes in natural gas inventory

Inventory is a buffer between supply and demand and plays a positive role in stabilizing oil prices. When the futures price is much higher than the spot price, natural gas companies tend to increase commercial inventory, stimulate the spot price to rise and reduce the futures spot price difference; When the futures price is lower than the spot price, natural gas companies tend to reduce commercial inventory, and the spot price drops, forming a reasonable price difference with the futures price.

3. Intervention in the market by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and the International Energy Agency

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries controls most of the surplus natural gas production capacity in the world, and IEA has a large amount of natural gas reserves, which can change the market supply and demand pattern in a short time, thus changing people's expectations of natural gas price trends. The main policy of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is to limit production and protect prices, and reduce prices to protect production. The 26 member countries of IEA * * * control a large number of natural gas stocks to deal with emergencies.