The March/April natural gas futures spread is sometimes called the “widowmaker” due to its excessive volatility (and, over the years, many traders
Columbia Energy Exchange on the Venezuelan political crisis…
Here is a description of the excellent podcast... “Venezuela's political crisis has reached a boiling point amid growing efforts to unseat
Goldman plans cuts in commodities trading… WSJ
Here is Liz Hoffman, Wall Street Journal: ”Investors don’t value volatile trading operations as highly as they once did, preferring more
One year after VIX blowup… WSJ
Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, has a nice piece on the trading the VIX, one year later, here... ”Speculators, a group that includes hedge-fund investors,
Yergin on the Venezuelan oil industry… WSJ
Daniel Yergin has an excellent piece on the destruction of Venezuela’s oil industry, here... ”Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the
Oil option market is quiet…
Not much to say about oil options these days, except the market is extremely quiet… Where is the volume? WTI crude options averaged only 118,514
OPEC Supply Management Policy… Bloomberg
Julian Lee, Bloomberg, writes on the difficulty implementing OPEC oil policy and finding balance, here... “Saudi production levels — which are
The Daily Shot with some oil pics… WSJ
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Sweet/sour crude spread… Bloomberg
Javier Blas, Bloomberg, discusses the sweet/sour crude oil spread, here... More sweet (increase in US oil production) and less sour (Venezuela,