Crude Oil
Algorithmic and Quantitative Oil Trading Strategies
A field guide to algorithmic oil trading: the strategy families that actually run in crude futures, the backtest traps that ruin energy…
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Hedging with Crude Oil Futures and Options
How producers, consumers and traders actually hedge oil price risk: futures, swaps, puts and collars with worked contract math, the margin traps…
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Oil Trading Psychology and Discipline
Crude doesn't just test your analysis; it tests your nervous system. The specific ways oil traders blow up - revenge trading the…
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How EIA Reports Move Oil Prices
Every Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. ET one government report reprices the entire crude complex in seconds. What's actually in the WPSR, how…
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Crude Oil Spread Trading Strategies
Calendar spreads, crack spreads, and the Brent-WTI arb — the three families of crude oil spread trading, each with worked contract math,…
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Fundamental Analysis for Crude Oil Markets
Most lists of 'factors that move oil prices' are useless because they never tell you how to weigh them. This is a…
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Oil Price Forecasting Methods for Traders
Every oil price forecast you have ever read was wrong, and the good forecasters knew it when they published. Here is an…
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Seasonal Patterns in Crude Oil Markets
Crude oil has real seasonal tendencies — spring strength, November-December weakness — but the volatility around them is huge. Here is the…
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How to Read and Trade the Oil Futures Curve
A practical guide to reading and trading the oil futures curve: level, slope and curvature, CoT positioning overlays, worked calendar spread math,…
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Crude Oil Contango and Backwardation Explained
What contango and backwardation actually mean for crude oil traders: the storage economics behind the curve, worked roll-yield math, and lessons from…