Sentences with phrase «oil futures»

The reason it does a poor job of tracking oil over the long term is because it invests primarily in crude oil futures contracts.

The fund's strategy seeks to outperform certain index ‑ based strategies by actively managing the rolling of crude oil futures contracts.

Learning how to invest in oil futures means understanding the various markets that offer these assets and how you can break into the market.

During this same period, activity on the crude oil futures market — as measured by the number of contracts outstanding, trading activity, and the number of traders — has increased significantly.

Case in point: Only about 2 % of oil futures contracts are actually settled through physical delivery.

For example the price of oil indexes based on oil futures may differ from the «spot price» for oil.

Some of the energy and oil ETFs might not track oil's price movements accurately if the fund is buying oil futures contracts rather than stock in individual oil and energy - related companies.

An article about day trading crude oil futures as prime example to fear and greed.

He put $ 100 million into stocks and $ 200 million into oil futures.

For example, looking at oil futures right now.

A drop in crude oil futures also helped push treasury yields to lower at the close of the week.

As a result, oil futures offer one way to tap into this vibrant and dynamic market.

The chart tells us that the net speculative long position in oil futures made an all - time high two weeks ago and remains close to its high.

Those countries have obligations to deliver oil futures and aren't going to cut production; it's not in their interest.

Oil futures easily constitute one of the most traded commodities in the futures market today.

In the past couple of weeks, crude oil futures really did a round trip.

I have also seen big moves happen in crude oil futures VERY FAST.

A $ 1 move in crude oil futures equals $ 1000 per contract.

The most direct way to invest in oil is through the purchase of oil futures.

With crude oil futures trading around $ 44 a barrel, you believe prices will rise.

The underlying asset in this case is the crude oil futures contract for the current front - month.

You can see how you can profit or lose money by buying oil futures.

This service provides you with a current outlook on different commodities and futures markets such as crude oil futures, gold futures and other futures exchanges.

This risk frontier can also lead to losses if the actual price at the time of buying oil barrels is less than the price guaranteed in oil futures.

With oil futures prices rising — in expectation of decreased production, therefore presumably increasing prices — the cycle between low and high oil prices gets closer to a theoretical if unachievable equilibrium.

LONDON, Nov 1 - European oil futures fell on Thursday as investors continued to analyse the aftermath of super storm Sandy, while U.S. futures gained as U.S. markets geared back up after the severe battering to the east coast delivered by Sandy.

U.S. crude oil futures for March delivery hit a high of $ 66.66 last week, their highest since Dec. 5, 2014.

West Texas Intermediate oil futures rose $ 1.12 to $ 51.54 a barrel in New York at 9:41 a.m. London time.

For this reason, Grantham's firm has aggressively purchased and hopes to profit from oil futures contracts.

News # 1: China might be just days away from launching its Yuan - denominated oil futures on the Shanghai exchange.

China has launched oil futures backed by yuan, and Beijing has what Gaddafi didn't, according to the expert.

U.S. crude oil futures settled slightly higher at $ 51.67 a barrel after the weekly oil rig count rose by 6 rigs to 750.

The investment objective of USO is for the daily changes in percentage terms of its shares» NAV to reflect the daily changes in percentage terms of the spot price of light, sweet crude oil delivered to Cushing, Oklahoma, as measured by the daily changes in price of USO's Benchmark Oil Futures Contract, less USO's expenses.

For instance, purchasing a 24 - month oil futures contract for $ 80 means you agree to purchase oil at $ 80 a barrel 24 months from now, regardless of what the price of oil is at that time.

Commodity markets saw mixed results this week, with oil futures easing off yearly highs.

LONDON, Nov 1 (Reuters)- European oil futures fell on Thursday as investors continued to analyse the aftermath of super storm Sandy, while U.S. futures gained as U.S. markets geared back up after the severe battering to the east coast delivered by Sandy.

U.S. crude oil futures edged up to trade near $ 58.50.

In the last two weeks, London oil futures have increased by $ 7 a barrel, closing last week at $ 74.06.

Crude - oil futures closed lower as disappointing employment data fueled concerns about the U.S. economy and energy demand, but a weaker dollar supported prices.

West Texas Intermediate oil futures jumped 1.6 percent to a six - week high of $ 47.12 per barrel.

Malaysian palm oil futures ended lower on Monday on fears of weaker exports and losses in other related oils.

Commodity markets saw mixed results this week, with oil futures easing off yearly highs.

In the graph below, you can see that we may be in line for more of the same, unless the market is wrong about oil futures, since the Budget 2013 WTI forecast again lies above the futures price.

Against that backdrop, inflation has been percolating, with commodities, particularly West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures gaining sharply in recent weeks.

When I first started following the forum, shorting oil futures was the hot investment.

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.

On January 30, 2015, the trader bought CFD on February oil Futures Brent (BRNH5)(he purchased 1 lot at the cost of only $ 2 800 with 1:20 leverage).