No More CL Contango

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The Contango is pretty much priced out of the forward CL curve, and June CL expired at $32.50 with July settling at $31.96 on Tuesday.

Quite a bullish sign for stocks.
 
bone said:
The Contango is pretty much priced out of the forward CL curve, and June CL expired at $32.50 with July settling at $31.96 on Tuesday.

Quite a bullish sign for stocks.
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That depends on what Powell spews tomorrow, and whether the case counts start going up in the next few weeks as we roll-out these phased-openings.
 
Point being - seeing Backwardation come back into the crude oil market means that serious commercial energy users and producers are feeling rather chippy about the future as compared to only a few weeks ago. I am certainly not suggesting that the balance of 2020 will be like 2019. But it is worth noting that you have a serious segment of the economy outside of the immediate stock trading community pricing in some prospects for near term economic growth.

Overnight said:
That depends on what Powell spews tomorrow, and whether the case counts start going up in the next few weeks as we roll-out these phased-openings.
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bone said:
Point being - seeing Backwardation come back into the crude oil market means that serious commercial energy users and producers are feeling rather chippy about the future as compared to only a few weeks ago...
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I didn't look at the prices during todays RTH session, but you say there was backwarding? All I see as I look at it now as of this timestamp is the normal contango we would see in a "healthy" CL market.
 
Why bullish? Stocks traded down when oil was in contango and in the past also when oil was not in contango. What's the relationship precisely? Thanks.

bone said:
The Contango is pretty much priced out of the forward CL curve, and June CL expired at $32.50 with July settling at $31.96 on Tuesday.

Quite a bullish sign for stocks.
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How so? Future spot prices are expected to be lower. How is this necessarily good for stocks? I don't see any correlation. I have certainly done my homework and investigated oil and broad stock market correlations and found hardly any evidence of stable correlations holding...

bone said:
Point being - seeing Backwardation come back into the crude oil market means that serious commercial energy users and producers are feeling rather chippy about the future as compared to only a few weeks ago. I am certainly not suggesting that the balance of 2020 will be like 2019. But it is worth noting that you have a serious segment of the economy outside of the immediate stock trading community pricing in some prospects for near term economic growth.
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faltd said:
How so? Future spot prices are expected to be lower. How is this necessarily good for stocks? I don't see any correlation. I have certainly done my homework and investigated oil and broad stock market correlations and found hardly any evidence of stable correlations holding...
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What exactly do you mean with "done my homework"?
 
I have calculated moving correlations between WTI and spx over many years and of varying window sizes. No specific correlation dynamics sprang to mind.

Atikon said:
What exactly do you mean with "done my homework"?
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Sharpen your pencil.

ES and CL has a 76% positive correlation Daily close-on-close the past 180 trading sessions.

CL and Russell 2000 have a 91% positive correlation Daily close-on-close the past 180 trading sessions.

faltd said:
I have calculated moving correlations between WTI and spx over many years and of varying window sizes. No specific correlation dynamics sprang to mind.
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