Five Steps to Making a Profit in Crude Oil Trading:
1. Learn What Moves Crude Oil: Crude oil moves through perceptions of supply and demand, affected by worldwide output, as well as global economic prosperity.
2. Understand the Crowd:Professional traders and hedgers dominate the energy futures markets, with industry players taking positions to offset physical exposure.
3. Choose Between Brent and WTI Crude Oil: WTI originates in the U.S. Permian Basin and other local sources while Brent comes from more than a dozen fields in the North Atlantic.
4. Read the Long-Term Chart: WTI rose after World War II, peaked late in the decade, began a torturous decline, and settled at the end of 2017.
5. Pick Your Venue
Some of the largest U.S. oil company funds and their average daily volume as of Feb. 14, 2020:
a) ·SPDR Energy Select Sector Fund: 14,959,4934
b) ·SPDR S&P Oil and Gas Exploration and Production ETF: 29,009,1455
c) ·VanEck Vectors Oil Services ETF: 9,882,9046
d) ·iShares U.S. Energy ETF: 552,7197
e) ·Vanguard Energy Index Fund ETF: 543,7338
Edited 28 May 2020, 18:40
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