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    CME Gasoil and Brent futures

    Does anyone here have any exposure in their book to CME Gasoil and brent? We do bundles of it on ICE but i'm wondering who in the states trades it through clearport?
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    Fuel Hedging using CL Call Options

    its only really the trading desk who understood it, everyone above, from the general manager of our division to the global head of trading didnt have a clue!
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    Gas Oil / Brent Inventory Data

    will your clearer let you take ICE gasoil futures on? I know someone who would probably be willing to share so long as you do the odd bit with them. Drop me an IM!
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    Gas Oil / Brent Inventory Data

    it's only really known by BP Shell Vitol Mercuria Addax Statoil and the players which have physical bbls in the region, and also active trading desks.... and their Brokers! For example a lot of Fortis crude, which sets the brent contract as it is the lowest of the BFOE grades, is held offshore...
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    Fuel Hedging using CL Call Options

    FAS used to be the bane of my existance in my previous Job. You have a physical crude cargo hedged with futures and the underlying price goes up (back in 2008 this was, it was always going up) you obviously get a MTM gain on your physical and MTM loss on your hedge. But you can only book the...
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    Options on Commodities Floor Traders

    When the IPE shut down it all went screen based, the only open outcry pit left in london is the London Metals Exchange. The Nymex pit is still open along with a few others i cant remember off the top of my head over stateside, but thats about it i think!
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    Options on Commodities Floor Traders

    ICE Brent and Gasoil are always much tighter from market makers or brokers than on screen for info.
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    market data fees for "professional customer"

    clicked your profile but cant see if you're UK based or not? If UK you are assumed to be a retail client in your current position, you can ask your broker to treat you as a prof. client if you so wish but that involves you signing some forms to say you are competent and dont need to be told...
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    Why does delta go down when expiration nears?

    well for gods sake, dong buy or sell anything just yet then :D
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    oil - LONG TERM VIEW

    Historically brent has been about 5% underneath WTI over the last 10 year period, over the last 6 months brent has been about 20% over WTI, and the arb has collapsed to -$20. from high stocks at cushing, the WTI delivery point fed partially from the new keystone pipeline, and secondly trouble...
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    Question on CL Options

    TI on ICE is financially settled, TI on Nymex/Globex is physically delivered at Cushing when the futures expire. Brent Gasoil and TI options all settle into the futures several days before the futures expire. Option expiry is 7.30pm for the crudes and 4.30pm for the GO, the longs then have 1...
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    Trading spreads like outrights

    Its generally a punt on weekly stats, pipeline volume and several other factors. My clients use it because they ship crude bought on a brent basis from persian gulf or NW Europe, and sell it on a WTI basis in the US Gulf or elsewhere on the east coast. Its actually a hedge for them. If you...
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    Trading spreads like outrights

    For the first 3 months of the year VaR on the arb (spread between WTI-Brent) was approx equal to the VaR on the flat price. With Cushing stocks and on stats day we regularly saw TI going 50c one way, brent going 50c the other way, and the arb blowing out by $1 Generally yes, spreads have...
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    Conversions and Reversals

    we see them generally used in the week prior to expiry for people to flatten their options positions off. i've never seen people trying to actually create a strategy out of using them, but guess there must be pennies there for pinching, but there certainly cant be much. Probably the same amount...
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    NYMEX energy options floor

    still sounds noisy when i speak to our sister corporation there! WebICE and Golbex both have numbers on screen, while TI has decent spreads and size of 50-100 lots per strike, Brent and GO are 40c and 7 bucks wide in general. A MM voice quote would usually be 20-30c and $4 wide tops and the...
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    heard bank traders are selling vol and delta hedging...

    agreed vol too low especially in GO and brent. every time ti moves away from the 100 mark vol goes bid, then comes off again as it tends back towards 100. i think people are nervous about another $10 movement one way or another but not sure which direction it's going to go in. also nervousness...
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    Tip of the iceberg. Where smoke=fire

    if you have deep enough pockets and big enough balls to take them on, then do so. The 'manipulation' in prices by physical traders is just them taking a position to profit from a direction they believe the market will go in. If you are Vitol, Mercuria, Gunvor, or Shell then you could quite...
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    Pictures of your trading stations

    It's an old style (pre in house 8-day movement that is) 212 chrono. It has one of the slightly larger 1950 shape cases which I prefer of the more modern squared off ones. Am a bit of a collector actually, have a bit if a vice for the things...
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    Pictures of your trading stations

    Hello, here's me. We broke Oil and Gasoil options to institutions, based in central London, UK 3 of us sit side by side here: we use Reuters E!KON, have bloomberg on trial, but not sure we'll keep it, and use ITS Netrix phones for voice comms to our traders around the world which are set up...
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    ICE WTI / Brent / Gasoil Options

    All, hello! I'm an institutional energy options broker, focusing on ICE/NYMEX TI, and ICE brent/GO. Amongst other things hello, and are there any other commodities pros here? Secondly, when we block or EFS trades on ICE block 2 into our customers accounts, our screen on Web ICE which...
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