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Optimizing Oil & Gas Producer Hedge Portfolios with Call Options

In our last post, Can Activity in Crude Oil Options Provide Insight into Crude Oil Price Trends, we explored the definition of delta, as well as it’s little brother, gamma: Delta: the rate at which an option’s premium changes for a given change in...

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Can Activity in Crude Oil Options Provide Insight into Crude Oil Price Trends?

In a recent Bloomberg article, “In a Risky World, Oil Traders Bet on $100 a Barrel” the author explored how, “Some oil traders have started to gear...

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Will Your Oil Hedging Strategies Sustain Another 2008-Like Crisis?

Will oil prices going to continue to decline or is yesterday's correction the end of the recent sell-off? Are we in the early stages of a 2008-like...

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An Introduction To Crack Spread (Refiner) Hedging

Over the course of the past year, refining profit margins have been all over the map. As an example, over the course of the past year, the WTI-NY...

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Common Oil & Gas Hedging Errors & How to Avoid Them

As energy risk management advisors, we're often called in to help clients "stop the bleeding" caused by flawed energy risk management methodologies,...

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Top Energy Hedging Failures in the Current Market Environment

As energy hedging advisors, we often see many market participants, make significant, if not catastrophic, errors related to their hedging strategies....

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Oil & Gas Hedging: What Can be Learned From the Past?

While not nearly as unnerving as the decline from $13 in the summer of 2008 to under $3 in 2009, the recent volatility, amid a low price environment,...

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Government Oil & Gas Hedging Update

Over the course of the past few months we've met with numerous government ogranizations and state owned companies, both producers and consumers,...

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This is Not Your Father's OPEC Agreement

For the first time since 2008, OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) has agreed to reduce its aggregate output by 700,000-800,000...

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The Week in Energy Markets - Our New Newsletter Covering the Energy Markets

We have just launched a new, unique weekly newsletter covering the global energy markets. In short, in order to deliver our clients with the advice,...

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