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Thinking about the Amaranth spread trade, it's not really any less risky if you use full margin, since spread trades have only a $2300 per NG spread maintenance margin requirement versus $10700 per contract for a one sided trade, so you can increase your exposure five times over with the same...

I think the hedge lies in that if the fund explodes the partners can bailout and join another fund. Actually I always thought the hedge referred to the fact that the first hedge funds took inflationary hedging trading strategies, such as buying gold/silver, that mutual funds could not...

I do read the free stuff on NGI and the ticker on Bentek, and I have tried the NGI free subscription, it's decent but I don't trade enough to pay the thousands of dollars per year to subscribe in full. Do you have the "Energy" Trade the News subscription or the regular TTN subscription?

I've only been trading very small e-mini positions with natty for three months to familiarize myself with the market dynamics. I am a geoscience major specializing in energy and climate issues, but I do not want to end up working for Schlumberger in Libya or Algeria or the like. My only other...

That fund is S.O.L from the looks of it. The return of cold is gone from all the predictions through the start of January (then again the skill of 15 day predictions is pretty low). January Natty has dropped $0.60 since your first post, and the weather/storage issue looks even worse...

From this morning: I don't understand why the Contango situation has been reversed with Brent (it's now backwardation) but is still active with WTI, anyone care to explain? Latest Brent: September U6 contract: 78.33 October V6 contract: 78.10 Latest WTI: September contract: 77.06...

Thank god. I was sh*tting in my pants after Floyd dissipated and I was still long. I don't understand why the Contango situation has been reversed with Brent but is still active with WTI, anyone care to explain? Latest Brent: September U6 contract: 77.60 October V6 contract: 77.37...

Sadness envelopes me as I look at my closed trade ticket at 74.50, well, guess everything wasn't baked into the cake. Then again bird in hand .....and all that other nonsense.

Oh well, I guess that last tick just answered the question

Brent (BFO) back above $75 on Monday methinks from $73.30. So far since the market closed on Friday: Venezuela threatened to cut oil exports to US if the US continues to threaten Venezuela (i.e. Chavez). Then Iran rejected the terms of the nuclear agreement it was mulling over as...