Natural Gas Profit Calculator
Calculate gross and net natural-gas CFD profit or loss from entered direction, prices, lots, broker contract size, price increment, currency conversion and total costs.
Enter the natural-gas CFD price path
Use confirmed fills or clearly hypothetical gas prices with the exact broker contract size. The calculator does not retrieve a quote, forecast an exit or reproduce a broker statement.
Entered natural-gas profit or loss
Entered Natural Gas CFD Contract Math 1.0.0
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On a small screen, scroll the table horizontally to review every arithmetic step.
How natural gas profit and loss is calculated
Gross quote-currency P/L = direction-adjusted price change × contract size × lots
Gross account-currency P/L = gross quote P/L × quote-to-account rate
Net entered P/L = gross account P/L − entered total costs
The core arithmetic follows the MetaTrader CFD profit convention: closing price minus opening price, multiplied by contract size and lots, with direction applied. The exact broker contract size is required because NGAS, NATGAS and XNGUSD labels do not define one universal number of contract units per lot.
The entered pip or tick size expresses the gas price movement as smaller increments. It does not independently change gross money because full price difference times contract size and lots already contains the same identity. A USD 0.125 move contains 125 increments when the entered size is USD 0.001.
Net P/L subtracts only the nonnegative account-currency total entered by the user. Spread, commission, financing, expiry, rollover, slippage, conversion and tax can affect a real result. Enter a verified combined amount or interpret zero costs as gross-only arithmetic.
A careful natural-gas profit-calculation workflow
- Verify the exact broker-server natural-gas symbol, trade contract size, increment and profit currency.
- Confirm whether the product expires, closes automatically, rolls or is offered as an undated cash-style CFD.
- Choose long or short and enter confirmed fills or clearly hypothetical prices.
- Enter broker-permitted lots instead of transferring a futures contract count or another broker’s lot size.
- Enter the scenario conversion rate and complete known account-currency costs.
- For an actual trade, reconcile every debit and credit against the broker statement.
Audited worked example
The audited example is a long entered at USD 2.750 and exited at USD 2.875, using 1.00 lot, contract size 100, an entered USD 0.001 increment, USD-to-USD conversion 1 and USD 2 total costs. The favorable USD 0.125 move equals 125 increments. Gross P/L is USD 12.50 and net entered P/L is USD 10.50.
How to interpret it
USD 10.50 describes only the entered price path, contract and costs. It is not expected weekly or monthly income. A reversed long move would be negative, and actual fills, financing, expiry or conversion can make the broker statement differ.
Natural-gas CFDs and natural-gas futures do not share one automatic contract size
NGAS, NATGAS and XNGUSD are broker labels for natural-gas-linked products, not a universal arithmetic specification. A natural-gas CFD is sized in broker lots and an entered contract size. NYMEX Henry Hub Natural Gas futures are exchange contracts with exchange-defined energy units and ticks. Related underlying prices do not make the trading units interchangeable.
| Product | Trading unit | Price-move unit | Specification owner | Correct tool family |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Natural-gas CFD | Broker lots | Entered gas price increment | Broker server symbol | These natural-gas CFD tools |
| Natural-gas futures | Whole exchange contracts | Exchange tick | Exchange contract specification | Futures tools |
| Forex pair | Lots / base-currency units | Currency pips and pipettes | Broker symbol and FX convention | Forex pip and lot tools |
Do not transfer a natural-gas futures multiplier, another broker’s gas lot size or the currency-pair pip convention into a natural-gas CFD result. The exact broker-server specification is the governing evidence.
Assumptions and limits
- No live, delayed, settlement or forecast natural-gas price is retrieved.
- The entered broker contract, increment, volume and conversion are not independently verified.
- One total-cost field cannot reconstruct spread, commission, financing, rollover or slippage.
- Entry notional is descriptive exposure, not margin, cash paid or maximum loss.
- Gaps, expiry handling, order rejection, liquidation and tax are outside the model.
- The output is scenario arithmetic, not a profit promise, signal or financial advice.
Where to verify natural-gas CFD inputs
Open the exact NGAS, NATGAS, XNGUSD or other natural-gas-linked symbol specification in MetaTrader. Confirm trade contract size, point or tick size, tick value, profit currency, minimum volume, maximum volume, volume step, calculation mode and any expiry treatment. MetaQuotes defines these fields, while the broker supplies the values for each server and account.
Natural-gas CFDs can be cash-style, undated or linked to a futures series. Expiry, financing, rollover, spread, commission and price gaps are outside this contract-math model. For an actual trade, use confirmed fills and reconcile the result with the broker statement.
Leveraged CFDs can produce rapid losses. Protection, availability and contract terms depend on jurisdiction, entity and client classification; the calculator does not determine which rules apply to a user.
Frequently asked questions
- Apply long or short direction to exit minus entry, multiply by entered broker contract size and lots, convert currency, then subtract entered total costs.
- The direction factor reverses the raw price change, so a lower entered exit is favorable and a higher entered exit is unfavorable before costs.
- MetaTrader CFD profit arithmetic multiplies price change by contract size and lots, while the exact broker-server symbol supplies contract size.
- It expresses the price change as smaller broker increments. Gross money still follows full price change times contract size times lots.
- Enter a verified account-currency total for the whole scenario. The page does not invent spread, commission, financing, expiry, rollover, slippage or tax.
- No. Entry price times contract size and lots describes entered exposure. Required margin, maximum loss and cash paid follow different rules.
- No. It is arithmetic for one entered natural-gas price path and says nothing about probability, repeatability or future performance.
- Use confirmed fills, exact server specifications, currency conversion and complete costs, then compare with the broker statement, which remains authoritative.
Sources and methodology
- MetaQuotes MQL5 AlgoBook — OrderCalcProfit — Documents derivative profit arithmetic as price change multiplied by contract size and position size.
- MetaQuotes — Symbol Properties — Documents trade contract size, tick size and volume minimum, maximum and step properties.
- FXCM — NGAS product guide — Documents one product-specific 0.001 point convention, minimum point value and futures-expiry treatment.
- IG — Commodities CFD product details — Distinguishes energy CFD contract variants and reinforces that contract terms are provider-specific.
- Financial Conduct Authority — Contract for Differences — Describes retail CFD protections and risk within the FCA regime.
The operational contract is Entered Natural Gas CFD Contract Math 1.0.0. Independent fixtures cover currency conversion, minimum-and-step quantity flooring, below-minimum and maximum boundaries, long profit, short loss and invalid inputs. Sources support the calculation method and verification workflow; they do not verify any product input or endorse this site.
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