(Oil & Gas 360) – The Climate Still Minimizing Natural Gas Demand, Prices And Expectations Have A Notable Summer Rally Set Up. The NASDAQ and S&P 500 setting new highs need a Drilling Boom to keep fueling prosperity production and value increasing. Quite a few are pleasantly surprised by the NASDAQ (Figure 1, green line) and S&P 500 (blue line) setting higher record highs. We credit it to more learning to Do/Be/Have better. Stock prices are also showing, by the Energy groups (XNG-line, XOI-red line, OSX-bold line) year-to-date (YTD) top performers as of February 27, before Operation Epic Fury jumped oil prices. Still top performers. We credit investors recognizing energy supply growth has fallen behind energy demand growth.The natural gas index (XNG) up 21% YTD despite the Henry Hub price of natural gas down to where it dropped to as the year began is awareness: now is a buy-low/own-low opportunity. A cold air incursion after Thanksgiving (Figure 2, line, right scale) tugged the Henry Hub spot price from below $2.5 to above $5 (bold line, left scale). Another longer incursion mid-January into February tugged the price from $3 to over $10. Only two weeks since, at the end of April into May, colder than normal (bold dash, right scale) has it $3.10 today, up from its decline to $2.92 last week heading into Holiday time off.Summer 2025 and Winter 2025/26 delightfully mild minimizing natural gas demand has most focused elsewhere on where to be invested. While the three weeks from mid-January into February were notably colder (Figure 3, red line) than normal (bold dot), they were half of the six cold weeks for this Winter. The other twenty-five of the thirty-one weeks were warmer than normal. Much warmer than Winter 2013/14 (red dash) but notably colder than Winter 2005/06 (green dash).Warmer-than-normal dominating April into May minimizing natural gas demand deflated the Henry Hub price from $3 toward $2.50. Cooling degree-day temperatures for the South Central Region during April (Figure 4, red line) averaging around 70 °F needed little natural gas for heating or to generate electricity for cooling. Temperatures minimizing dominating very long, helping have expectations low, has us bullish as hours of sunlight increasing have demand soon increasing much.By oilandgas360.com contributor Michael Smolinksi with Energy Directions The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Oil & Gas 360. Please consult with a professional before making any decisions based on the information provided here. The information presented in this article is not intended as financial advice and not to be deemed an offer or solicitation with respect to the sale or purchase of any securities. Please conduct your own research before making any investment decisions. Contact Energy Directions for the full report. The material herein is obtained from sources believed to be reliable and accurate, but its accuracy is not guaranteed. Some information is opinion and should not be construed as a statement of fact.