Following yesterday's post on how natural gas typically has its best quarterly performance during the third quarter, we received some questions asking if the average was skewed by one or two years. With that in mind, the chart below shows the average and individual quarterly returns for natural gas. While natural gas' best quarter happened to occur in the third quarter of 2005 (99%), Q3 is also positive more often than any other quarter (63% of the time). Finally, the median return of natural gas since 1990 in Q3 is higher than any other quarter (10.4%), and it is also over twice the return of the next nearest quarter (4.5% in Q2).
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