Jim Colburn

Natural gas and crude oil prices are moving in opposite directions... in a hurry... Implied vol for both have moved up sharply, with natural gas

Implied volatility shot higher yesterday... This chart uses settlement data from at the money, second month options...

The CME shows a whopping 702,918 WTI crude oil options trading yesterday, which (by my records) breaks the previous record of 579,935 on November

This morning’s release of the International Energy Agency’s Monthly Oil Report, here, shows what OPEC and the U.S.’s Energy Information Administration

OPEC’s Monthly Oil Market Report, here, was released this morning... Here are some interesting charts taken from it: This is the well reported

Andy talked about this in our latest podcast recorded last Friday... Here is Bloomberg’s Alex Longley: “Global appetite for the group’s crude will

Using the CME's Most Active Strikes tool, here, we see that the Dec 60 put was most active on Friday with over 15,000 trading, on a very active day...

The Wall Street Journal’s “The Daily Shot”, here, has a nice chart showing which importing countries were granted waivers:

The EIA is expecting stock builds in the current quarter and all of 2019...