Quote from fear429:
You actually answered your own question. "BZ looks very thinly traded and downright awful." They are equivalent contracts. ICE is the leader in the Brent space and CME/NYMEX is the leader in the WTI space. Though you can trade both products on each exchange.
Thanks but I think you misread what I wrote. I did say BZ and BRN were interchangeable (eg. "note that IB uses BZ for BRN"). But if you look at the chart Risky posted earlier, BRN in this case, it looks more like COIL. So I checked the exchange setting and found that BRN is connected to Nymex and not Ice. This means BRN and BZ are in fact the same contract. But why do the two charts look so different?
