We can garner a lot of market information from a snapshot of the CME’s excellent analytical tool, Most Active Strikes... For example, in the pic
Frackers on a treadmill… WSJ
Rebecca Elliott, Wall Street Journal, has a nice piece on the oil production treadmill, here... ”By front-loading the wells to boost early oil
Hedge fund activity… John Kemp
You can find John Kemp’s excellent update on fund activity in oil markets here... “Hedge fund managers are becoming progressively more bullish on
Oil price/implied volatility… The Daily Shot
Here are a couple of charts showing oil prices and implied volatility for WTI, from the Wall Street Journal’s “The Daily Shot”... Oil
63 Charts… JP Morgan via Business Insider
They’re all here.. And, this one is worth repeating (note the long only commodity strategy!):
US oil production… WSJ
From The Daily Shot, here..