Natural gas prices are dropping Tuesday on mild spring weather and technical traders looking to cash out on several days of gains. Natural gas for July delivery is down 5.9 cents, or 1.3%, at $4.586 a million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Weather forecasts are mild, the type of spring weather that’s too comfortable to drive gas demand for home heating or for the power plants that fuel air conditioners. That’s got technical traders pouncing, as they sell out to lock in gains from last week’s steady rise in prices, analysts and a trader said. It’s important they sell now before a federal data update due Thursday can show the types of large surpluses that could push prices even lower, analysts said. “It doesn’t take much in the way of mild temperature forecasts and you get quite a bit of profit-taking […]