A Crude Oil Hedging Lesson From Mattress Mack - $85 and It's Free
If you live in Houston or you've spent much time here, you're certainly familiar with Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale, the owner of Gallery Furniture....
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An Alternative Oil Hedging Strategy Using Three Way Collars
We've previously explored how both energy producers (see Hedging Oil Gas With Three Way Collars) and consumers (see Fuel Hedging With Three Way...
Mitigating Crude Oil Hedging Losses Caused by Three-Way Collars
On Friday we updated a previous post which explored oil and gas producer hedging with a strategy known as a three-way collar. As we noted in the...
How Will Global Oil Markets React to Tomorrow's OPEC Meeting?
While the US energy markets will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow, nearly everyone who has any interest in the global oil and gas...
Are Crude Oil Prices in the Early Days of a Sustainable Bear Market?
As crude oil prices have declined by over 20% since late June, many are now wondering, are prices approaching a bottom or are we in the early days of...
Are SDRs Exposing the Details of Large Oil Hedging Transactions?
Based on our conversations with hundreds of commodity hedgers, its safe to say that many, if not most, participants in the energy commodity markets,...
Is Your Crude Oil Hedging Strategy Overly Optimistic?
In our last post, we addressed natural gas producers' tendency to be overly optimistic, how it exposed many of them to unnecessary risk, and caused...
An Introduction to US Gulf Coast Crude Oil Hedging
As the Gulf Coast continues to becoming an ever more active crude oil trading hub, the interest in hedging Gulf Coast crude oil is increasing as...
An Update on Sovereign Oil Hedging Programs
Over the course of the past few days we've received several reports that Mexico has begun to execute it's 2014 oil hedging program, so we're going to...
Hedging Against A Potential Oil Price Spike
After trading as low as $92.67 only two weeks ago, WTI Crude oil prices have risen significantly since then, trading above $100/BBL for the only the...