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Crude Oil Trading – Trading USO

Finally got cornered into buying out of money calls on USO; now in the market for buying out of money puts. How did the cornering happen; I was caught asleep on my laptop and rather than leaving a Good for Today order, left a Good Till Cancelled order that got filled the minute the market…Read more

Crude Oil price outlook – Is oil fairly priced now or still expensive. Or what can a barrel of oil buy – part ii

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…Read more

Euro and Oil outlook – Trailing correlation between crude oil prices and Euro-USD exchange rates

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…Read more

Crude Oil Outlook – Blast from the Past – The InvestBank note on Crude Oil Outlook in 2010

Here is the note that I have referred to a number of times in the past on this site. Written by Nauman Khan at InvestBank in mid March and release for public consumption in early April, Nauman correctly pointed out that the fundamentals for Oil outlook were very weak. His basic thesis in the note…Read more