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Trading Jenga: London Gains Ahead in Crude Trading?

New commodity options will become effective on Sunday, September 13, 2015. Trading will begin on Monday, September 14, 2015, if all goes well during the CFTC regulatory review period.

Trading Jenga: Margin Rates

What will the large scale effect of negative rates be on energy trading? This is a large area of trading which falls under risk management. If your margin rates do not float down with the overall market, you will be significantly disadvantaged over the long term. This will be…

Trading Jenga: Trafigura and LNG

The 2015 spot market for LNG is increasing. Several proposed LNG facilities were shelved as oil prices fell during the past year. This trend will continue as oil and gas prices trend in a range too low to support key long-term contracts for the LNG plants. Spot market…

Trading Jenga: How to Stay Alive and Unwind Positions

Crude Oil and International Conflict

WTI crude oil closed for the week at $48.52. Brent closed at $50.88 a barrel on the European…

Trading Jenga: Where Are The Profits?

Trading Jenga targets many leading indicators in search of trading income. Trading income can…

Trading Jenga: Oil Lows and World Volatility

As increased terrorism moved into energy markets, oil prices hit new lows in e…

Trading Jenga: Big Moves in Commodity and Currency Markets

The most recent edition of the Wall Street Journal revealed a gorilla in the market. Currency forces are fairly easy to discern until a major force jumps into the mix: government repurchasing of currency is fairly quiet until…

Trading Jenga: Trading Relationships between Natural Gas and BioFuels

The bio-fuels contracts are quite interesting. Do traders make money in these markets trading bio-fuels as an individual profit center? Is this a hedging opportunity for large biofuels firms.? Are existing…

Trading Jenga: Currency Moves and Crude Oil Positions