Explain how profitable speculators should stabilize prices if they make profits over a long time period

What will be an ideal response?


Speculators' purchases raise prices, and their sales lower them. Therefore, if they are profitable over time, speculators should reduce natural gas price volatility because they
buy when prices are too low and sell when they are high.

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