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May 27, 2010 Administrator Crude Oil, Crude Price Outlook, Euro, Euro Zone Crisis, Trade Ideas, Trading, Uncategorized,
Oil touched 71.84, hovering near the 72 dollar level in early afternoon trading in Singapore after the dollar weakened against Euro and slid to 1.2279 from 1.2178 yesterday.
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May 27, 2010 Administrator Crude Oil, Crude Price Outlook, Euro, Euro Zone Crisis, Trade Ideas, Trading, Uncategorized,
Most analysts are now talking about 1.18 as the next new low for Euro. There were rumors of Chinese officials reviewing their Euro-zone debt holdings, more concerns about Spain and Italy and the extent, depth and length of a slowdown in Europe on account of austerity measures. The fall in Euro last night in New [...]
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May 26, 2010 Administrator Crude Oil, Crude Price Outlook, Euro, Euro Zone Crisis, Trade Ideas, Trading,
Interesting whiplash action today compared to yesterday as crude rises by almost 4% despite an EIA reported rise in crude inventories and a drop in gasoline stocks, an improvement in durable goods orders and the first decline in 10 weeks at the inventory number in Cushing, OK where deliveries for the WTI crude oil contract [...]
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May 26, 2010 Administrator Crude Oil, Crude Price Outlook, Euro, Euro Zone Crisis, Trade Ideas, Trading, Uncategorized,
Qualifications to using and Limitations of the Value at Risk (VaR) Metric VaR is dependent on historical data and therefore may never fully capture severe shocks that exceed recent or historical norms. Also if the time period used in the calculation is a relatively stable one then the computed VaR will tend to understate the [...]
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May 26, 2010 Administrator Crude Oil, Crude Price Outlook, Euro, Euro Zone Crisis, Trade Ideas, Trading, Uncategorized,
I can finally breathe a sigh of relief as my out of money call options on oil (USO) start showing some sign of life as crude oil for July delivery picks up 1.7 dollars on rising equities, lower gasoline stocks and the expected EIA report later today. Oil rose across trading in Asia and Europe [...]
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May 25, 2010 Administrator Crude Oil, Crude Opinions, Crude Price Outlook, Trade Ideas,
Bank of American Merrill Lynch (BAML) finally updated their 2010 second half crude oil numbers downwards to 78 from their earlier reiterated outlook of 92. BAML was one of the few oil bulls left standing when oil continued its march northwards of 85, side by side by Goldman Sachs (GS). While a lot of analysts [...]
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May 24, 2010 Administrator Crude Oil, Crude Price Outlook, Economic Outlook, Trade Ideas, Trading,
I asked Agnes, our resident actuarial genius to run some more numbers on the crude oil and commodities correlation series that we had been playing with. Here is what she turned in today before heading home. If you have just arrived, the concept is simple. In times of stress correlations break down. Sometime they return [...]
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May 22, 2010 Administrator Crude Oil, Crude Price Outlook, Trade Ideas, Trading,
A few posts ago we ran a simple basic analysis looking at the relative value of oil with respect to a number of other core commodities. We revisit that post again with more recent and updated data as well as add a table that allows for a quick relative comparison of commodity prices against crude [...]
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May 21, 2010 Administrator Crude Oil, Crude Price Outlook, Euro, Euro Zone Crisis, Trade Ideas, Trading,
And here they are. The two graphs that I had promised in my earlier post on trailing correlations on the Euro-USD exchange rate and crude oil prices. The first with the Euro-USD exchange rate. The second with oil prices. While the first does not really suggest a relationship, the second raises an interesting point. This [...]
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The fall of Euro – The mystery behind ECB and Mr. Juncker’s cryptic comments
May 20, 2010 Administrator Euro, Euro Zone Crisis, Trade Ideas, Trading, 0
How bad is the fall of Euro. Does the Euro-zone crisis marks the beginning of the end for the European currency? Will Euro ever recover? Is it in Greece’s interest to default and leave the Euro-zone? How do we even begin to answer these questions? I have lived in a country that has faced a [...]
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