- Open interest held in ICE Brent options surpassed the threshold of 4 million contracts for the first time on record, the equivalent of 4 billion barrels, as investors seek to hedge their ...

Oil price moves aren’t random, and sharp reversals and stalls are often driven by options positioning and mechanical hedging flows, not news or fundamentals. Producer hedging and dealer gamma hedging ...

A fresh wave of bullishness is washing through the oil-options market as traders protect against the risk to supplies in a region that pumps a third of the world’s oil from mounting attacks between ...

The investment seeks current income; secondary objective being exposure to the performance of United States Oil Fund, LP (“USO”) subject to a limit on potential investment gains. The fund is an ...

Tony Daltorio has 30+ years of experience in investments, 18+ years as a broker and supervisor with Charles Schwab, and 9+ years in financial writing. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, ...

Anyone who trades crude oil futures has seen it happen. Price sells off hard into a round number, stalls, and then snaps violently higher. Or oil grinds higher all morning, only to reverse sharply mid ...