This could make UAH a vastly better choice going forward, especially if the natural gas market continues to surge higher as we get into the next earnings season.

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On the autocorrelation issue: The models have a much larger range of lag-1 autocorrelation coefficients (0.66 to 0.95 for T2LT, and 0.69 to 0.95 for T2) than the UAH or RSS data (which range from 0.87 to 0.89).

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