When Does MNG (Micro Natural Gas Futures) Actually Move? Hourly Ranges on 5 minute Charts

Educational reference. Measured from 15,564 recorded 5 minute bars of Micro Natural Gas through October 19, 2026.

08:00 is the busiest hour, averaging 0.0100 per bar — 10.0× the quietest hour at 00:00.

The same stop is a different stop at different times of day. This is the median high to low range of a single 5 minute bar of Micro Natural Gas, hour by hour, measured from 15,564 recorded bars over the last 90 days.

Hour (ET)	Median range	Bars
00:00	0.0010	589
01:00	0.0010	617
02:00	0.0020	678
03:00	0.0030	677
04:00	0.0020	679
05:00	0.0020	671
06:00	0.0030	679
07:00	0.0060	718
08:00	0.0100	740
09:00	0.0090	740
10:00	0.0070	736
11:00	0.0060	732
12:00	0.0050	716
13:00	0.0040	705
14:00	0.0050	710
15:00	0.0030	681
16:00	0.0030	683
18:00	0.0030	592
19:00	0.0010	620
20:00	0.0020	655
21:00	0.0020	653
22:00	0.0020	629
23:00	0.0010	607

The spread across the day

The busiest hour is 08:00, averaging 0.0100 per bar. The quietest is 00:00 at 0.0010. That is a 10.0× difference across the same instrument, the same timeframe, the same trading day.

A stop sized for 00:00 conditions will be caught routinely at 08:00, and a stop sized for 08:00 gives away far more than it needs to overnight. The same number of points does not mean the same thing at every hour.

How this was measured

Every 5 minute bar of Micro Natural Gas recorded in the last 90 days was grouped by the hour it opened, in Eastern time. The figure shown is the median of high minus low within each group — the middle bar of that hour, not the average, so a single outlier session cannot distort it. Hours with fewer than 60 recorded bars are omitted rather than shown on thin evidence.

These are recorded market ranges, not predictions. Nothing on this page is a projection.