Download or read book 40 Classic Crude Oil Trades written by Owain Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The day-to-day world of crude oil traders is not usually open to outsiders. Few non-specialists appreciate how oil traders approach the markets, what their backgrounds are and how they make money. This book brings the oil trading world to vivid life by introducing the reader to 40 real-life trades or strategies that were carried out by named market participants. The 40 chapters cover different geographies and different crude oil markets, providing an unparalleled insight into how crude oil traders work and think. Oil trading developed in its current form in the 1980s and the chapters cover these early beginnings through to the present day. The trades have been grouped in sections that relate to the nature of each trade and its broader use as an example of a successful trading style. Sections cover approaches to arbitrage trading; the impact of geopolitics; logistics and storage plays; short-term versus longer term trading; managing new crude oil grades; trading crude oil derivatives. The book provides plenty of inspiration for current or prospective crude oil traders or analysts. It will also be valuable for academic researchers, business school case studies, and for anyone wanting to learn more about the individuals that shape the world’s most important commodity market.
Download or read book Trading and Price Discovery for Crude Oils written by Adi Imsirovic and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the international oil market. It takes a historical perspective on how the market emerged, developed, and became what it is today—the biggest commodity market in the world. It is mature and complex, but far from perfect. Throughout most of its 150-year history, the oil market has been monopolised by companies and governments. For only a fraction of that, oil traded in a relatively free market. As a result, we had to live with ‘big oil’, economic shocks, high oil prices, instability and wars. Using a simple concept of market power, this book will explain the meaning of ‘oil price’ and how it is established while offering a valuable lesson for other commodities. Market power is the key to understanding the ‘price of oil’. This book uses a simple concept of price-makers and price-takers to examine the evolution of oil markets, their structure, and prices. The early decades of the oil industry were competitive with low barriers to entry. Barely 25 years later, the Standard Oil company created a refining monopoly, buying oil at its own ‘posted’ price. In the following century, the cartel of major oil companies, helped by their governments, did the same at the international level. OPEC helped producing governments regain control of their own resources, but the organisation was never able to retain a similar level of control. After 1986 price collapse, OPEC abdicated the price-making function in favour of the market. While it never gave up attempts to influence prices, OPEC had to link their official prices to one of the global oil benchmarks. Modern international oil markets function because of oil benchmarks such as Brent, WTI and Dubai. This book showcases: • How oil traders played a prominent role in development of the industry • How policies of consuming nations helped oil cartels • Why and how the US price of oil was negative • How AI has changed the way markets operate and the way in which the markets are likely to change in future This book explores how oil markets grew, functioned, and have occasionally failed to do their job. The ecosystem of derivatives or ‘paper barrels’ trading in far greater volume than physical oil plays a very important role in mitigating risk. With this core tenant, setting the ‘price of oil’ is explained in detail.
Download or read book Oil Trading Manual written by David Long and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oil Trading Manual (OTM) provides a unique and comprehensive reference source to the latest developments in the structure and conduct of the international oil markets including: Physical characteristics and refining Oil pricing arrangements Physical oil markets Forward and futures contracts Options and swaps Operations and logistics Accounting and taxation Controlling financial risk Legal and regulatory control OTM provides a unique and comprehensive reference source to the structure and conduct of the international oil markets. The manual covers all the major oil trading instruments and their applications; the trading centres, contracts, uses and users of both the physical and the terminal oil markets, and their administrative, management, tax, and accounting implications. It also includes vital information on changes to the international legal and regulatory structures. The manual is divided into three complementary parts; Characteristics An introduction to oil and oil trading, and includes material on the nature of oil as a commodity, refinery processes and the different ways in which oil is priced. Instruments and markets Deals with the oil market itself taking each segment in turn, explaining how the various trading instruments work and describing the markets that have evolved to trade them. It starts with the physical oil markets, moving on to forward and futures markets, followed by options and swaps. Administration Covers the essential 'back-room' activities without which oil trading could not continue. It includes practical material on operations and logistics, credit control, accounting, taxation, contracts and regulation, and controlling financial risk, providing a unique guide to the subject. Compiled from the contributions of a range of internationally respected professionals, it is the indispensable practical companion for all those involved with trading in this complex commodity. Revised and updated 2003
Download or read book Crude Volatility written by Robert McNally and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As OPEC has loosened its grip over the past ten years, the oil market has been rocked by wild price swings, the likes of which haven't been seen for eight decades. Crafting an engrossing journey from the gushing Pennsylvania oil fields of the 1860s to today's fraught and fractious Middle East, Crude Volatility explains how past periods of stability and volatility in oil prices help us understand the new boom-bust era. Oil's notorious volatility has always been considered a scourge afflicting not only the oil industry but also the broader economy and geopolitical landscape; Robert McNally makes sense of how oil became so central to our world and why it is subject to such extreme price fluctuations. Tracing a history marked by conflict, intrigue, and extreme uncertainty, McNally shows how—even from the oil industry's first years—wild and harmful price volatility prompted industry leaders and officials to undertake extraordinary efforts to stabilize oil prices by controlling production. Herculean market interventions—first, by Rockefeller's Standard Oil, then, by U.S. state regulators in partnership with major international oil companies, and, finally, by OPEC—succeeded to varying degrees in taming the beast. McNally, a veteran oil market and policy expert, explains the consequences of the ebbing of OPEC's power, debunking myths and offering recommendations—including mistakes to avoid—as we confront the unwelcome return of boom and bust oil prices.
Download or read book Trading in Oil Futures and Options written by Sally Clubley and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 1998-09-14 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trading in oil futures and options is an introduction to price risk management in the worldwide oil industry. With numerous practical examples, it requires no prior knowledge and should be read by everyone involved in the industry. Although aimed primarily at those new to risk management it will also provide a useful theoretical background to more experienced managers and it will show those in other markets how the oil industry uses futures and other derivatives. This book concentrates on all the risk management tools available to everyone from crude oil producer to refined product consumer and explains the theory of futures, exchange options and over the counter trading.
Download or read book Trading Crude Oil written by Liz Bossley and published by . This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oil Traders Words written by Stefan Van Woenzel and published by . This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical oil trading is a worldwide activity containing a lot of oil business terms. Traders talk about time value, contango, backwardation, refinery activity, credit, logistics, HSE and much more, hence the size of this book. An oil trader generates billions of dollars cash flow per year, so he must be able to understand the meaning of the trading language and communicate in the correct way. But you might have a job which is related to that activity, and therefore it is important to understand the discussions, as you may be linked to that cash flow. The book is therefore a great working tool for all people being related to the commercial side of oil activity. A useful book for oil companies, but also for banks, shipping agents, refineries, marketers, brokers, inspectors, storage companies, expeditors, and many more with an interest in the oil industry. The book includes popular trading expressions and conversion tables related to oil trading.
Download or read book How to Trade Black Gold written by Christo Ricardo and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crude oil investing and trading is not for the faint of heart or weak minded. Your trading capital can vanish right before your very eyes should you not be prepared or not have a plan to deal with the brutality and volatility of the crude oil market. How to Trade Black Gold is important for self-directed beginners because it helps them develop the tools and confidence to become successful trading in this volatile market. How to Trade Black Gold details a few easy and fast ways in which a brand new self-directed beginner can get into the crude oil sector in their portfolio by buying low and selling high. Trading and investing in crude oil presents challenges that are not normal in other instruments due to the many variables that are involved with its price movement. The markets, especially crude oil only work on supply and demand and that’s it, and you don’t need any fancy indicators to tell you that price is up or down because you can see it right on the price chart. How to Trade Black Gold can get any brand new self-directed crude oil trading beginner on the fast track to high profits as long as they are well capitalized and have their rule based core strategy for trading and investing in crude oil mastered! How to Trade Black Gold is going to tell the brand new self-directed beginner crude oil trader only the most important information they need to know right away which will empower them to make money trading crude oil. How to Trade Black Gold tells you how to learn it the right way the first time and greatly reduce that long learning curve by showing you what the crude oil market is really made of and what you need to know to begin making money trading in the harsh and volatile market of crude oil.
Download or read book How to Swing Trade Crude Oil for High Profits written by Jose Mosca and published by . This book was released on with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trading in general is challenging for most new traders because they simply don't have tools or confidence to become successful. Trading and investing in crude oil presents challenges that are not common in other instruments due to the many variables that are involved with its price movement. How to Swing Trade Crude Oil for High Profits is important for self-directed beginners because it tells it like it is and gives an inside look at the this market, giving you the reality on what the market is really like. Let’s face it, it’s a well-known fact that 97% of brand new self-directed investors and traders fail and lose all of their money. In crude oil investing and trading your trading capital can vanish right before your very eyes should you not be prepared and not have a plan to deal with the brutality and volatility of the crude oil market. Most trading shown in books, video training and webinars these days is taught not only unrealistically it shows you information you really don’t need and that cannot help you have an edge. This book is for self-directed beginners and will detail many of the things that a brand new trader must learn to do before they can become consistently profitable in the live crude oil market. The markets, especially crude oil only work on supply and demand and that’s it. You don’t need any fancy indicators to tell you that price is up or down because you can see it right on the chart. What you do need to know is where the smart money is working so you can make money with them instead of trying to trade against them. Trading and Investing in Crude Oil for Beginners is going to give you a chance to do that if you do what it says and follow the advice. You’ve heard the saying buy low sell high right? Right now in 2018 is the time to do exactly that and How to Swing Trade Crude Oil for High Profits has a few ways in which a brand new self-directed beginner can get into the crude oil sector in their portfolio. The learning curve in the crude oil trading business and it is a business can be long, brutal and very very expensive if learned the wrong way. Don’t be that trader! How to Swing Trade Crude Oil for High Profits aims to tell you how do study it the right way the first time and greatly reduce that long learning curve by showing you what the crude oil market is really made of and who are actually in control of it and when they are in control of it. When you have this information and can see it on a live price chart in real time and pull the trigger without hesitation you can make a lot of damn money and How to Swing Trade Crude Oil for High Profits can get any brand new self-directed beginner on their way to doing that as long as they are well capitalized and have their rule based core strategy for trading and investing in crude oil down pat!
Download or read book Cme Vulnerability The The Impact Of Negative Oil Futures Trading written by George Xianzhi Yuan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2020, the global lockdowns caused by the COVID-19, or coronavirus, pandemic had resulted in a sharp drop in demand for crude oil. This impact was so severe that on April 8, 2020, a proposal to update the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (CME) trading rule to permit negative prices was applied to CME's WTI Oil futures contracts; this led to a novel phenomenon in which the closing clearing price of WTI Oil May future was $-37.63/barrel based on fewer than 400 contracts' trading volume in the last three minutes, reflecting less than 0.2% of the total trading contracts volume on April 20, 2020. This occurrence of negative closing clearing price for CME's WTI Oil futures trading, cannot be explained simply by just the principle of supply and demand; instead, it highlights vulnerabilities caused by CME's allowance of negative price trading (based on its trading platform), a decision which brings potential and fundamental challenges to the global financial system.This event challenges not just our basic concepts of 'value' and trading 'price' of commodities and goods that underline our understanding of the framework for the invisible hand and general equilibrium theory in economics established by a few generations of scholars since Adam Smith in 1776 for market economies, but also have wider implications on the fundamentals that underpin our ideas of value and labor in the organization, activity, and behavior of civilizations and individual liberties.The scope of this book is limited to covering the impact of the negative oil futures derivatives' trading between April 20 and 21, 2020. This book focuses on exploring the issues, challenges, and possible impacts on global financial markets due to the negative clearing prices of WTI Oil futures contracts and related problems from different perspectives. Topics covered include the responsibilities and liabilities of the CME; critique to the fundamental theory of economics and the modern understanding of value and labor; and challenges to the global financial systems and businesses and introduction to new methods of application.
Download or read book Understanding Oil Prices written by Salvatore Carollo and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s a fair bet that most of what you think you know about oil prices is wrong. Despite the massive price fluctuations of the past decade, the received wisdom on the subject has remained fundamentally unchanged since the 1970s. When asked, most people – including politicians, financial analysts and pundits – will respond with a tired litany of reasons ranging from increased Chinese and Indian competition for diminishing resources and tensions in the Middle East, to manipulation by OPEC and exorbitant petrol taxes in the EU. Yet the facts belie these explanations. For instance, what really happened in late 2008 when, in just a few weeks, oil prices plummeted from $144 dollars to $37 dollars a barrel? Did Chinese and Indian demand suddenly dry up? Did Middle East conflicts magically resolve themselves? Did OPEC flood the market with crude? In each case the answer is a definitive no – quite the opposite in fact. Industry expert Salvatore Carollo explains that the truth behind today’s increasingly volatile oil market is that over the past two decades oil prices have come untethered from all classical notions of supply and demand and have transcended any country’s, consortium’s, cartel’s, or corporate entity’s powers to control them. At play is a subtler, more complex game than most analysts realise (or are unwilling to admit to), a very dangerous game involving runaway financial speculation, self-defeating government policymaking and a concerted disinvestment in refinery capacity among the oil majors. In Understanding Oil Prices Carollo identifies the key players in this dangerous game, exploring their competing interests and motivations, their moves and countermoves. Beginning with the 1976 oil embargo and moving through the 1986 Chernobyl incident, the implementation of the US Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, and the precipitous expansion of the oil futures market since the turn of the century, he traces the vast structural changes which have occurred within the oil industry over the past four decades, identifying their economic, social and geopolitical drivers, and analysing their fallout in the global economy. He explores the oil industry’s decision to scale down refining capacity in the face of increasing demand and the effects of global shortages of petrol, diesel, jet fuel, fuel oil, chemical feedstocks, lubricants and other essential finished products, and describes how, beginning in the year 2000, the oil futures market detached itself almost completely from the crude market, leading to the assetization of oil, and the crippling impact reckless speculation in oil futures has had on the global economy. Finally he proposes new, more sophisticated models that economists and financial analysts can use to make sense of today’s oil market, while offering industry leaders and government policymakers prescriptions for stabilising the market to ensure a relatively steady flow of affordable oil. A concise, authoritative guide to understanding the complex, oft misunderstood oil markets, Understanding Oil Prices is an important resource for energy market participants, commodity traders and investors, as well as business journalists and government policymakers alike.
Download or read book How to Invest in Crude Oil written by Shadow Trader and published by . This book was released on with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trading in general is challenging for most new traders because they simply don't have tools or confidence to become successful. Trading and investing in crude oil presents challenges that are not common in other instruments due to the many variables the like volatility that are involved with its price movement. How to Invest in Crude Oil is important for self-directed beginners because it tells it like it is and gives an inside look at the crude oil market, giving you the reality on what the brutality in the crude oil market is really like. Let’s face it, it’s a well-known fact that 97% of brand new self-directed investors and crude oil traders fail and lose all of their money, they go down hard, real hard. In crude oil investing and trading your trading capital can vanish right before your very eyes should you not be prepared and not have a plan to deal with the brutality and volatility of the crude oil market. Most trading shown in books, video training and webinars these days is taught not only unrealistically it shows you information you really don’t need and that cannot help you have an edge, which you absolutely must have if you’re planning in working in the crude oil market. This book is for self-directed beginners and will detail many of the things that a brand new trader must learn to do before they can become consistently profitable in the live crude oil market. The markets, especially crude oil only work on supply and demand and that’s it. You don’t need any fancy indicators to tell you that price is up or down because you can see it right on the chart. What you do need to know is where the smart money is working so you can make money with them instead of trying to trade against them. How to Invest in Crude Oil is going to give you a chance to do that if you do what it says and follow the advice. You’ve heard the saying buy low sell high right? Right now in 2018 is the time to do exactly that and How to Invest in Crude Oil has a few ways in which a brand new self-directed beginner can get into the crude oil sector in their portfolio. The learning curve in the crude oil trading business and it is a business can be long, brutal and very very expensive if learned the wrong way. Don’t be that trader! How to Invest in Crude Oil aims to tell you how do study it the right way the first time and greatly reduce that long learning curve by showing you what the crude oil market is really made of and who are actually in control of it and when they are in control of it and how to use an actionable strategy against them. When you have this information and can see it on a live price chart in real time and can pull the trigger without hesitation you can make a lot of damn money and How to Invest in Crude Oil can get any brand new self-directed beginner on their way to doing that as long as they are well capitalized and have their rule based core strategy for trading and investing in crude oil down pat!
Download or read book The Market for North Sea Crude Oil written by Robert Mabro and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of the North Sea's major role in today's world petroleum market, these essays examine the structure of the market, the international framework and tax regime, the function and mechanism of forward dealings, and price behavior.
Download or read book Trading in Oil Futures written by Sally Clubley and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secret World of Oil written by Ken Silverstein and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it, like ExxonMobil. But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady meeting ground of fixers, gangsters, dictators, competing governments, and multinational corporations, and until now, no book has set out to tell the story of this largely hidden world. The global fleet of some 11,000 tankers—that's tripled during the past decade—moves approximately 2 billion metric tons of oil annually. And every stage of the route, from discovery to consumption, is tainted by corruption and violence, even if little of that is visible to the public. Based on trips to New York, Washington, Houston, London, Paris, Geneva, Phnom Penh, Dakar, Lagos, Baku, and Moscow, among other far-flung locals, The Secret World of Oil includes up-close portraits of a shadowy Baku-based trader; a high-flying London fixer; and an oil dictator's playboy son who has to choose one of his eleven luxury vehicles when he heads out to party in Los Angeles. Supported by funding from the prestigious Open Society, this is both an entertaining global travelogue and a major work of investigative reporting.
Download or read book Oil Traders Words written by Stefan van Woenzel and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide for anyone working in the oil business. Based on his 30 years' experience of working in oil logistics, storage, operations and oil trading, Stefan van Woenzel has compiled a comprehensive dictionary of oil terms and jargon. This third, updated edition contains more than 2,000 terms, definitions, abbreviations and phrases that are used every day by oil traders and those working in the industry. Use it as a reference book to help make sense of the jargon encountered in oil trading and enjoy better communication and understanding in your oil discussions and work. "Everyone involved in buying, selling, shipping, storing or distribution of oil, should have this book on their bookshelf." - arend van campen ma, Author of: 'Toxic Tanker and Safety of Ethics'
Download or read book Oil 101 written by Morgan Downey and published by WOODEN TABLE PressLLC. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since 1859, oil has enabled and defined our economic, social and political landscape. Throughout this time, abundant supply ensured low, stable prices and the inner workings of the oil industry remained relatively obscure. Following a century and a half of relative calm, oil prices have become much more volatile as the sustainability and growth of reliable supply sources have been brought into question. This book provides a guide to oil; from its history, to sources of supply and drivers of demand; from how prices are determined daily in global wholesale oil markets, to how those markets are connected to prices at the pump." -- Book jacket.
