Sentences with phrase «buying oil futures contracts»

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If the oil traders are right, they can make money by buying oil at today's spot price, selling a futures contract for delivery at the higher price expected in the future and storing the oil in the meantime.

For example, you could purchase a futures contract to buy oil at $ 95 per barrel with a delivery date three months from now.

Let's say you are bullish on Crude Oil and looking to buy a futures contract, but the rest of your portfolio is full of energy stocks.

NYMEX crude oil is the largest oil futures contract in the world and has a current total open interest of around 1.6 million contracts and it would be impossible for any group of speculators to sell or buy 53 days of world production in a year or longer, no less in a week as just occurred in COMEX silver.

It meant that if someone could buy physical oil and store it cheaply they could make a risk - free annualised return of almost 40 % by simultaneously selling July futures contracts.

If you think oil is on the way up, you can invest by buying stock in an oil and gas company, investing in a limited partnership, or buying the commodity through futures contracts.

For another example, if a large speculator who was very bearish on oil aggressively short - sold the December - 2016 oil contract, driving its price down from $ 64 to $ 60, it would create an opportunity for other traders to lock - in a profit by selling physical oil and buying the December - 2016 futures with the aim of eventually replacing what they had sold by exercising the futures contracts.

If you invest in a fund that always buys one - month oil futures contracts, for instance, and that fund has to pay $ 2 more than the spot price for them, the fund will essentially lose $ 2 per barrel each month when they roll their futures contracts.

Investors who buy ETFs that use commodity futures contracts are sometimes surprised to see that the ETF does not move in lockstep with the price of the commodity as seen in the news, oil being a good example.

As an example, airlines are well known to protect themselves against significant rises in crude oil prices, by buying a futures contract today with a specified price and delivery date in the future, on the assumption that oil prices will be on the rise over the period in question.

Before rushing to buy a futures contract or calling your broker about spot prices, consult the following beginner's guide to investing in oil (including which type of investors are best suited to do it, and how much of your portfolio oil should comprise).

Intended for advanced investors only, oil futures contracts entitle you to buy and sell options to purchase or sell oil (and hopefully profit) based on your predictions of where the market is going.

For example: Company A enters into a forward contract to buy 1 million barrels of oil at $ 70 / barrel from company B on a future date.

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In all the three cases, the soya oil manufacturer is able to get his desired buy price, by using futures contract.

An airline expecting the price of oil to rise, buys a three - month futures contract for 1,000 gallons at current prices.