Quote from austinp:
CL had been my preferred market until recently, but current price action does not permit scaling into multiple contracts positions. Nor can I really feel comfortable about placing numerous contracts outside of congestion breaks and/or pullbacks the way price just violently explodes.
I can see trading maybe 1 or 2 contracts trying to game the price bursts, but as for me I need to trade something where I can methodically enter & exit with scaled size. That has not been CL for quite some time on a consistent basis, and definitely not the past few months.
Would love to see it return to historical price behavior of the decade-plus past, but it's a long ways from there right now. To my understanding, most if not all of the former futures prop shops in Chicago and elsewhere are downsized or gone mostly from the contraction in CL.
The government wanted less volatility in the crude oil - gasoline prices for sake of consumer confidence, so they made that happen. Back in 1990s and 2000s, any discussion of government meddling with markets got scoffed at by the masses. Ten years later, the same government openly discusses financial markets manipulation.