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Watching /CL futures follow its recent pattern of very high vol, short during sells to dump price, even in the face of steady buying. Definitely gov(s) running these algos taking losses to keep oil cheap. Meanwhile algos also take losses keeping NQ head above water to keep gulf state national funds invested and swap lines flowing.
Ansar Allah finially taking back some seized territory with multiple areas hit in Saudi Arabia, and yet I see the usual algos using low volume, high intensity selling in /CL to maximise the price move downward for the least amount of cost. Coordinated selling of futures is fine in the off hours to create the most bang for the buck price offset before regular trading hours kick in, but the real problem are spreads to refine those barrels, and coordinated government manipulation doesn't have a financial instrument to sell into. The interesting this too is that the oil lobby is bigger than the farm lobby, so that's why ultimately the oil boys get to sell their product for top dollar and Drump give the farmers lip service. Follow the money/donations.
CL will be like 48 in 2028
stocks are scary theres too many, rather just have ES NQ RTY ZT ZN CL HO VX on a screen and go from there
I refuse to let them fuck with my chi anymore. Aside from CL, I still play with that and its lies are more predictable.
I highly doubt the DEA is going to respond to this pause in proceedings we are stuck in purgatory yet again It’s a never ending nightmare Don’t want to sell here at bottom Sold my CL on Monday thank god before this crash Just feeling sick right now
yday morning CL was 96, now its 90 :happy:
Interesting. Yeah I know that’s the same for SPX. But CL is a nice idea
i trade them a fair bit, mainly on /ES and /CL. the big draw for me is the 1256 tax treatment, 60/40 long term/short term split is nice no matter what your bracket is. liquidity can be spotty on some contracts though so check the open interest before you jump in
Wahhhh. Watch. CL will hit mid 80s eow, or next week, and the markets gonna zoom to new ATH's I'll be sure to wear my special helmet at night till then though
Surely we should all go long on CL right now, right?
someone's trying really hard to keep CL from pumping, but monday was a lot worse
hmmm, look at what the rumors yesterday did, CL was going down fast
I need one of those masterclass YouTube videos with that dramatic music and it’s just me talking about banging hookers, snorting lines, calling the mods 🌈 and then going all in on 0DTE /CL futures and blowing up my accounts and my child’s college fund.
CL should be at $1, not here. Some unexpected news, a run up and consolidation. Is it too much to ask for nowadays?
ES will gap lower and CL will gap higher at 6pm open. You heard it here first.
Can anyone explain to me why /CL gapped down but $USO didn't like im completely regarded?
Piling into dec CL contracts
Why did CL futes just drop to $96.56?
VIX down, CL1 down, 2Y down, 10Y down, ES up NQ up, looks like a good macro environment for the morning move
look at USO, RBOB, CL charts. PSO/VLO/MPC. kinda getting exhausted up there
my point isnt u cant long USO, if u just want like "delta1" (CL1+CL2)/2 and u know that this is what USO is, thats fine. but i dont think most ppl understand this when they buy it.
USO the ETF retards buy when they want to long CL but they're retarded
yall need to stop saying shit like USO price what is that. it tracks CL
if u type "it is happening" and the last 6 15 minute CL candles are red, it is not happening
seeing /CL just steadily climb 5% throughout the session is ominous.
I still to this day can’t understand why people with this much money to gamble can’t figure out how to use the right product. Why not just short /CL?! If you “win” you’d owe less in taxes, you’d get a better fill because a more liquid product. Why are you playing a derivative of a derivative with that amount of size? You hold this for more than a day or two you are losing thousands on just decay alone.
Subsidize it in the markets by Bensette taking lossez every day selling down /CL futures
USO, XLE, or MCL futures for brokies. CL futures for the big boys
I’m skeptical about this screenshot. Overnight maintenance for CL is close to $10k. With 50 lots you need $500k in the account to carry the trade overnight. He’s no where close to that and it’s not legal to carry the trades overnight. Maybe he’s got collateral? If that’s the case then who knows how much money he actually has behind this trade.
And how exactly is the fed supposed to do anything meaningful on the supply side? Their only real lever there is reducing rates to encourage capital deployment. And that isn't gonna happen with the current inflation problems. Unless Warsh can convince Trump to leave the middle east entirely (LOL) the oil shock will continue to cause cost of literally everything everywhere (that gets moved by a truck, train, plane, or boat) to move higher... Raising rates isn't gonna get us out of this pickle either. Getting out of war would. CL1 blew right past $100 today. We are boned until oil comes back down, and there's no end in sight there.
No. We saw PPI. CPI won't be better, it'll either tell the same story or it'll be worse. That, and go look at CL1- or USO- or whatever. Just about every stock in existence is touched by the price of diesel or gas at some point. If it's shipped by any method, even more so. The time to exit those calls was yesterday afternoon. Of course, anything's possible- even if highly unlikely.
could see a re-test of CL at 100.88 for next leg up
/CL is mooning while /NQ and /ES are holding key demand levels
do ZN1! etc. its the continuous front contract CL1! ES1! etc.
can colgate-palmolive change their stock ticker so that typing CL in tradingview and hitting enter just brings up crude please
CL up 3% shit going to get ugly
/CL is up 1% and Iran announced they are increasing control of the straight. Retalliation tarrifs coming from Canada tomorrow. Last inflation print before FOMC meeting on Friday. I'm just going to hold off for a moment. Good luck all
so there's this thing called CME globex, where things like SR3, ES, ZT, ZN and CL trade. they are the real market. and all the nonsense u all talk about everyday is retarded and worthless.
I think XYZ:CL can get to 95 and brent at 100 in the next day or two, depending on how we open.
CL crude futs looking nice. Ascending triangle triggers at about $93, there's air to $104-105. Could see a quick updraft. USO long calls are fun like hiring six hookers and seeing if you can tackle it all.
i sharted a starter CL today
Wondered if I could get some friendly input on my Roth IRA. After about a week of looking, I opened a Fidelity account and set up a payment plan to automatically buy FRBVX (FID Freedom Index 2070 Investor CL) weekly. My job offers a 3% Simple IRA I can start January 2027 and I plan to do that also. For some backstory: I'm 22, freshly college graduated, and just started a corporate job. I plan to max out my Roth IRA and want to obviously have the most gains without the risk of losing everything. I have a CD with Raymond James and I dabbled a bit in stocks some years ago but truly don't really know anything about real investing. I just wondered if there was anyone who has experience in these Fidelity Freedom Funds or any other helpful input? Thank you so much!
If you don't check QQQ/CL or SPY/CL what are you doing
Well look at that /CL futures up another three bucks. That's another $1B sell line item for ole Scotty this afternoon. Spending our social security and inflating the currency argh
Nah.. Here since 2017. Holding GTI and a bit CL. Dead money since years. And I'm not even talking about total losses from AYR and others. Thank god I diversified in other markets. Nevertheless it still haunts me that I was dead wrong with weedstocks.
*"Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Gharibabadi: Iran told negotiators that the US must correct its errors and return to its commitments if it wants a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz - State TV"*, after market close today. Will be interesting tomorrow, but amazing /CL futures just keeps going down. Is theUS gov shorting futures? How are they going to deliver on those physical contracts?
I think this is more a reaction to Hyperliquid and their 24/7 perpetual futures which currently combine the speed & execution of a centralized exchange with the benefits of defi (transparency & privacy). Hyperliquid did over $220 billion in perp volume in July. One example is oil traders hedging over weekends due to Friday news dumps & the pros noticing that the CL and Brent futures open at perp prices. They pose a huge existential threat to CBOE, NASDAQ, and CME in no rolling contracts, settlement, delivery etc…and the lowest fees around. Market share in futures, options, etc….are starting to show signs of weakness.
Why don't you buy CL futures options instead? Something like call 130 March'27, for $1 premium
The global economy is more than energy, but it also ceases to exist without energy. Energy is the grease, the power, and the transport of our global economy. When prices go up, the global economy is taxed. Take a 5-year view: [https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CL%3DF/](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CL%3DF/) Ukraine invaded, 2022 US-Iran conflict, 2026 Both the top of the 5-year graph on oil prices.
Calls on Futures of Crude Oil (this is the ticker: CL1!)
the rate itself is hard to move much on a small account, they mostly negotiate for volume. the lever nobody's mentioned is contract selection: that $2.25 is basically fixed per contract, so trade the full-size future option (/CL, /GC, /ES) instead of the micro (/MCL, /MGC, /MES). a full-size has roughly 10x the premium of a micro for the same commission, so if you're selling premium the fee as a % of what you collect drops about 10x. on a small account people default to micros to keep size down, but that's exactly what makes $2.25 hurt, it's a big chunk of a tiny micro premium. SPAN is efficient enough that a small account can usually hold one full-size short, just know a naked short's margin scales up fast when vol spikes, so size it as one real position. the micro options are also way less liquid, so the wide bid/ask there often costs you more than the commission. if you genuinely can't fit a full-size, the drag is just the cost of trading that small and negotiating won't fix it.
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I'll take a look at the vol in both USO and /CL. I'll be honest, not something I've looked at before but everyday is a school day right!
I been watching USO and /CL, usually seasaw trading, but thats not working either.
Leopold Aschenbrenner's holdings per SEC filling: APPLIED DIGITAL CORP COM NEW 038169207 469,022,807 15,384,616 SH SOLE 15,384,616 0 0 BABCOCK & WILCOX ENTERPRISES COM 05614L209 28,587,059 2,027,451 SH SOLE 2,027,451 0 0 BITDEER TECHNOLOGIES GROUP CL A ORD SHS G11448100 54,584,072 3,439,450 SH SOLE 3,439,450 0 0 BLOOM ENERGY CORP COM CL A 093712107 44,133,660 145,800 SH Call SOLE 0 0 145,800 BLOOM ENERGY CORP COM CL A 093712107 1,898,778,982 6,272,808 SH SOLE 6,272,808 0 0 CEREBRAS SYSTEMS INC COM CL A 15675D103 2,210,000 10,000 SH SOLE 10,000 0 0 CLEANSPARK INC COM NEW 18452B209 178,617,822 12,276,139 SH SOLE 12,276,139 0 0 CORE SCIENTIFIC INC NEW COM 21874A106 665,556,824 26,008,473 SH SOLE 26,008,473 0 0 COREWEAVE INC COM CL A 21873S108 744,515,203 7,479,558 SH SOLE 7,479,558 0 0 HIVE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES LT COM NEW 433921103 33,246,763 9,133,726 SH SOLE 9,133,726 0 0 IREN LIMITED ORDINARY SHARES Q4982L109 433,250,547 9,474,099 SH SOLE 9,474,099 0 0 INFOSYS LTD SPONSORED ADR 456788108 5,245,000 500,000 SH Put SOLE 0 0 500,000 KEEL INFRASTRUCTURE CORP SHSCOM 486917107 151,830,996 26,451,393 SH SOLE 26,451,393 0 0 MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC COM 595112103 5,573,819,392 4,828,786 SH SOLE 4,828,786 0 0 NEBIUS GROUP N.V. CLASS ASHS N97284108 1,232,894,684 4,464,260 SH SOLE 4,464,260 0 0 PROPETRO HLDG CORP COM 74347M108 28,111,878 1,960,382 SH SOLE 1,960,382 0 0 RIOT PLATFORMS INC COM 767292105 468,198,000 17,100,000 SH SOLE 17,100,000 0 0 SANDISK CORP COM 80004C200 5,673,738,513 2,495,344 SH SOLE 2,495,344 0 0 SHARONAI HOLDINGS INC COM CL A 778920306 456,836,112 5,396,127 SH SOLE 5,396,127 0 0 SOLARIS ENERGY INFRAS INC COM CL A 83418M103 90,889,306 1,129,621 SH SOLE 1,129,621 0 0 STMICROELECTRONICS NY REGISTRY 861012102 584,344,203 7,802,700 SH SOLE 7,802,700 0 0 T1 ENERGY INC COM NEW 35834F104 46,452,000 4,900,000 SH SOLE 4,900,000 0 0 TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFAC SPONSORED ADS 874039100 1,265,099,645 2,649,035 SH SOLE 2,649,035 0 0 TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFAC SPONSORED ADS 874039100 23,878,500 50,000 SH Call SOLE 0 0 50,000 VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY INC COM 928298108 20,167,500 375,000 SH SOLE 375,000 0 0 WHITEFIBER INC SHS G96115103 68,282,760 1,757,600 SH SOLE 1,757,600 0 0
Buying 10 contracts of CL=F after Bessent claimed we'd have a deal in two weeks was the easiest money I'd ever made. Besides buying them when the war started.
Well, CL futures are still on the move. Either the administration is still waiting for a higher profit target to see at before the TACO is released, or there's actual concern oil is truly griding into a shortage scenario. I don't care either way. Sooner the admin gets to the "find out" phase, the sooner we're rid of this nonsense.
guys you did long CL on hyperliquid 4 hours ago for 77$ right? or am i the only one?
oh shit CL is up more than NQ
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https://preview.redd.it/z6ghb9p1vngh1.png?width=1295&format=png&auto=webp&s=cc6101034d74faee9a37cc9c9a134ba8b276bb88 nice volume before close on S&P and in afterhours on CL.
I’m currently holding CL calls and SPY puts. Upvote if you think this will be a winner on Monday
CL aiming for 100 today lmaooo
Because "Iran talks" claim from 🥭 the past couple days works and the market wants to be optimistic that this bullshit will end soon? CL spiked from 79 to 83 just a few hours ago when Iran missile strikes against US bases were confirmed. Personally I think I'm gonna add to my oil longs. I doubt 🥭 backs out without a bunch more violence to try to not look like a loser.
Idk, I was early on both the start of the war and the restart of the war. Which was a good lesson. I’m currently holding CL longs. Mostly due to lower supply, China needs more soon and generally low reserves across the globe. Some weekly puts on ES in anticipation of FOMC and earnings this week
Nice, I was down 30k at open and ended up 38k(CL futures are hurting that rn). Don’t you think higher fuel prices are already priced in?
Pls tell me because it doesn’t make sense. And I’m deep in CL
Indeed, my CL calls went down by 93% over the weekend. I’m reloaded on calls now again
Very likely and am waiting as well. RYM, TSND and CL will be my plays. I've already bought into HITI and OGI the last couple of weeks.
Wrex you getting wrexed in /CL futures?
ugh i’m holding calls on /CL at 80 through the weekend :/
I'm going to make a bold prediction, but it's a binary one. If /CL closes on an OptX date above 110 then we are all fucked. It's set up like it will, but there is no way to tell how long that will take. It could drop considerably before it rebounds again, or it can just continue. Each OptX cycle is like a 20% in oil which people don't realize; that's why they say commodities are sneakily the most volatile assets. Or it can just lose demand, but in which case that begins another problem because demand destruction almost always means a recession. This is why I strongly believe the economy is fucked and there needs to be pain to get out of this; I don't see a path otherwise.
Fuck it, im holding my CL over the weekend
One tweet and your position is cooked. I'll trade CL intraday, but the heck with any position I'd even hold overnight
On the real — You guys finding the After Hours/Asian market easy these days? /ES trends KOSPI like it did /CL 2 months ago. Been doing all my trading AH last few weeks. Made an easy $3,000 Could have made a lot more
For the opposite of the above trade - same symbol as the OP, just opposite directions (write the call). Match his dates For oil - CME CL, and follow the direction of the skew. If you do not understand those words, stick to more vanilla products until you do.
Man- ES these days been so easy After Hours Two months ago- Track CL / Oil Now- Track Kospi/ Korea So automatic / easy
Man- ES these days been so easy After Hours Two months ago- Track CL / Oil Now- Track Kospi/ Korea So automatic / easy
I’ve made this same exact trade 5 times and made money 4 out of 5 times. This will be the 6th time. I still believe Cresco is arguably top dog when it comes to brand power. It competes in the toughest states and holds it own, for example Michigan. They just loose top line due to compressing margins. Cresco will be acquired. GTI is a safe bet until they start competing in unlimited licsened states. Read their filings, they don’t compete that’s why have been able to protect top line. Could a trulieve Cresco happen? Maybe. Could a trulieve ascend happen? Maybe. Trulieve needs to expand out of FL. Curaleaf will be dead in the water soon. Verano I like just but they are poorly ran in the operation side. I know I have a good chance at loosing money with CL and GTI but I also put in stop losses 5 percent below my entry. I don’t blindly hold.
Everything else aside, this I don't understand. CL and GTBIF are subject to the same overhangs as the other stocks, and will continue to trade in tandem along with the worst companies in the sector
CL struggling to break past $74.50 not going to gamble on that again though
Every oil ship attacked lowers the price of CL so this is actually incredibly bullish
Samsung signs peace treaty with Hormuz CL + 10.12%
You’re smart! But to be fair… I wasn’t trying to talk you into trading /CL, that’s for sure. If I was, you should block me now. I think I was just explaining futures in general, and I remember trying to be pretty objective about their leverage and risk.
CL has a daily gap below us, dont look for a bounce until we fill it
There has been infinite amount of oil bagholders claiming that oil should at least 2x from here since some big powers are shorting CL to keep the artificial ceiling on the price, citing the disparity between the physical oil and futures. I do not have domain knowledge nor interest in commodities, but more likely chance of them serving your next order at $WEN if this news is true.
Hopefully the future hurries up and makes shippers not have to require people to sit at home all day to sign some bullshit lol. Sometimes you can waive it, but man, still can't far too often. Need to hire someone off of CL to just sit around and wait for those packages.
How is CL not spiking up, ain't no way tankers are still going through the strait rn