How do you short sell oil commodities?
452140
If you think the market for oil commodities is going south (= is going to drop), then you sell them now.  (Yes, even if you don't own them, you can sell them and receive the going price.)  Then, to close the position, you must buy them back before the option expires.  If you're right (about the price dropping), then you will be buying them back at a lower price and can pocket the difference.\n\nWork with a reputable broker, they will explain in great detail the risks associated with this often employed investing principle.
1140134
Nobody knows what the price of gold will do in the future.  If someone claims to know, they are fooling themselves or trying to fool you.\n\nYou could sell a portion of your gold (1 coin at a time, or whatever) at regular intervals, say each week or each month.  That way if it keeps going down, you're getting some money out at today's relatively higher price.  If it goes back up, you'll still have some left to sell at the higher price.  Good luck.
50408
Weakness of the dollar is driving the price of gold (and other commodities) up. Being in a diversified portfolio is essential. Including gold, commodities, and major foreign currencies are ways to hedge against a decline in the dollar.\n\nUse at your own risk. Talk to your financial advisor.
612616
If you like this kind of market try\nFOREX:\n\nhttp://www.rapid-forex-method.com
89351
Enter a STOP LIMIT order.  Specify the hit price...ie you have a stock that is $50.  You enter a STOP LIMIT order at $40.  If the stock hits $40, your order becomes an active MARKET order to sell the stock (not necessarily at $40).\n\nIf you want to sell at a fixed price you can do a STOP LIMIT order.  Once the stock hit $40, it becomes a LIMIT order at a specified price.  You may choose $38 for example.\n\nHope that helps.  I use etrade so if you have any other questions feel free.
1139313
All brokers must allow you to take delivery because that condition is in the terms of the contract. All futures "contracts" spell out these terms. \n\nEach commodity has a specified delivery point, or several, like oil delivery can be accepted in K.C., MO or Cushing,OK. \n\nYou can get delivery, but it will certainly not be to your front door. I have a friend that accepted delivery on gold, and he hired a bonded (and armded) guard to accompany him from the CBOT to the bank for deposit.
630101
You can use an Exxon product called Varsol or gas
469711
You cannot buy a Brent Oil Barrel.\nThe minimum amount is 500 Barrels.\n\nThose wishing to trade NYMEX miNY™ energy futures must first establish an account with a New York Mercantile Exchange clearing member firm, either directly or through a brokerage firm that does futures business. \n\nYou only buy 500 Barrels of Oil if you are a Company that actually needs the Oil for something. For example if you are General Motors and you have a factory that makes plastic pieces for your cars you obviously need Oil because Plastics are made of Oil.\n\nIf you are not a Company and you don't need 500 Barrels of Oil you sell your contract before the expiration date to someone who actually needs the Oil.\n\nA Future is a Contract to buy 500 Barrels of Oil in the future for $75.00 each.\n\nOil futures are highly especulative and you should not invest in Oil futures if you don't have at least $1,000,000.00 in assets (excluding your primary residence)\n\nOnce you have bought a Future you have the obligation to buy the Oil.\n\nOn the other hand, Options give you the right (But not the obligation) to buy the Oil.\n\nOptions are highly especulative and you should not invest in options if you don't have at least $500,000 in assets (Excluding your primary residence)\n\nFor example, Oil is currently at $75 but if you think Oil is going up you buy an Option with the right to buy the Oil at $75 in the future and if the Oil goes all the way to $100 you make a lot of money.\n\nOn the other hand if Oil goes below $75 you lose your entire investment. \n\nFor example, Oil is currently at $75 but if you think Oil is going down you buy an Option with the right to sell the Oil at $75 in the future and if the Oil goes all the way down to $50 you make a lot of money.\n\nOn the other hand if Oil goes above $75 you lose your entire investment. \n\nIf you are serious about investing in Oil you can drop me a line.\n\nTop 10 Answerer in Business & Finance.
842537
It is not a good idea to pour more money into a loosing position.  You have already lost over 25% of your investment.  You really have two options to consider.  hold or sell.  Which you choose depends a lot on your overall portfolio.  If this is the only stock you own and it makes up a very large portion of your capital, you may wish to lighten your position.  If on the other hand you are well diversified and RPL consists of less than 10% of your portfolio, the outlook for oil is very promising in the long term.  The supply is vanishing and no one has yet come up with a viable substitue and they are not likely to for at least another 20 years. So consider the drop in price as just a minor setback on the road to a brighter future.
525316
The short term trend of the price of oil is dependent on speculators' expectations. They drive the short term price of oil. \n\nWhat are some events that might make the price go higher?\n\na fall in the price of the dollar. Oil is priced in dollars so a drop in the value of the dollar will mean a rise in the price of oil.\n\nglobal events that relate to the supply of oil. More instability in Nigeria will increase the price of oil. Election results in Mexico will effect the price of oil. Events in Venezuela will effect the price of oil. What GWB does or does not do will effect the price of oil. A successful terrorist attack on the Saudi refineries will drive the price of oil through the roof.
422680
You have two logical choices.\n\n1. Invest in the oil companies themselves.\n2. Invest in oil futures or options.\n\nThe safer choice of course would be choice 1.  Futures trading involves much higher levels of risk.
752128
Selling short stocks or options is perfectly legal.  Because you are taking on a financial risk, which you may not be able to cover, your broker will have limitations of what it will allow you to do, based on your account balances and investing experience.\n\nA common practice to limit your risk is to buy a call option with a strike price (at which you can buy back the storck) that is quite a bit higher than the stock's current price.  This option won't cost you much, but will limit your potential loss if the stock keeps going up instead.  For example, if you sell short 500 shares of stock that is trading at $55/share, you can buy 5 call options to buy this stock at $70/share.  It will not cost you much at all, but it also reduces your potential loss from having no limit to being capped out at $15x500=$7,500.\n\nAlso, to sell a stock short you'll need to have a margin agreement signed and approved by your broker firm.
300695
So i guess you know what forex trading is.\n\nFutures and options and forwrds, the easiest, are a kind of derivatives. Derivatives are a financial instrument whose value derives form the value of other, more basic underlying assets.\n\nNow, forwards are contracts in which the price of a commodity or currency is set for the future. It has to do with expectations of the market, and how the market thinks, based on information today, the price of those commodities or currencies will be in a certain date.\nLets say the exchange rate of mexican pesos for us dollars today is $11.09. That´s the spot exchange rate. Now, lets say you and i agree that in june 2006, im your gonna sell me american dollars at an exchange rate of $11.1828. If my expectation is the peso will be higher, im gonna make a deal with you. So, the future of the pedo, for june 2006 will be $11.1828. Imagine our deal, but not made between us, but between thousands of dealers, in the Chicago MArket.\nCompanies use futures a lot as a way to protect themselves. I believe in english its called hedging. If an american firm sells water tanks to a firm in France, but the payment isnt due untill 45 days later, both companies would like to agree to make the exchange of euros for us dollars at a future exchange rate. That way they now exactly how much they owe or get. The same with commodity prices. A future of the price of oil is nothing more than a contract agreeing on the future price of the transaction. Funny thing is, you and i can agree on an oils future contract, where im selling and your buying, but the barrel of oil is never transacted. What we do is, lets say the future price of oil for august is $73 usd. im selling, you are buying, and we agree on that price. Come august 31st, the real price of oil is $78 usd. since you are buying, you win $5 bucks per barrel right? And i lose % per barrel... so instead of giving you a barrel of oil you cannot even store, i just give you $5 per barrel. _If the real price had been $65, i would have won $8 per barrel, and you lose $8 per barrel.\n\nThe same with futures. MAjor difference with forwards is that an exchange of assets is required. Contracts are pretty much standarized. The delivery, kind and quality of product, etc is all defined. Largest exchanges are made in the Chicago Board Trade. Futures include a los of prodcts... live cattle, sugar, coffee, gold, cooper, aluminium, etc.\n\nOptions are a little bit harder. There are 2 basic type of options: call options, giving the holder the right, option, to buy an asset at a certain date at a certain price. Put options, giving the holder the right, option, to sell an asset at a certain date at a certain price. For example, lets say i buy a call option to buy in 3 months stock of yahoo. The actual price is, just an example, $10 bucks, and my call option gives me the option to buy at $12. The price to buy that option for 1 share of yahoo is worth $1. If 3 months pass, and the price of the stock is $11, i certainly wont take my option to buy the stock and lose $1, the initial investment on the option. But if the real price is $15, im going to take my option, buy the stock at $12 and sell it at $15, earning $2. \nJust be careful cause there are american options and european options... european options can only be excersied at the end of the contract, ehile american options can be excercised whenever in the life of the option.
1003632
Here ya go:\n\nhttp://www.advfn.com/p.php?pid=commodities&cc=US&refredir=1&nopu=7M3QB%2BHE0y6hTGQhlEp7%2FVKaIh%2FBzoP%2BnsaIR%2FdsdTWnEvJInj968IWMQSybT%2BSR
586157
Fill your tanks only half full uneless you need to make a long trip.You do not need to stock Bush's & Cheeny's gas on your shelf.This will cost the oil company's $3000,000,000.00 a day and will leave only half the room in the supply tanks To but in new gas.The tankers will be stacked off the coast trying to unload.I remember coffee going to $5.00 a pound in the seventys.People stopped buying and in two weeks the price was down to $1.50 a pound.Lets go Amercians the power is in your purse's and wallets "Let's Roll"
398754
regression method is the best forecast technique for commodities,\nbut also u can use the moving average method and weighted moving average method\nbut the regression method give u forecast for more than 3 periods of the commodities
949851
Crude oil futures trade at the Nymex exchange.  Go to Nymex.com, click on Crude Oil under the Market Data Overview heading and then click on previous session overview.