XOP

Intrepid_Cup2765

Stick to XLE and XOP. In oil it doesn’t matter as much who’s pumping it - as the cost of the goods sold goes up, they’re all proportionally making that much more money regardless.

Intrepid_Cup2765

XLE and XOP - still severely undervalued. I plan on holding mine for a while (6-24 months) after the straight “re-opens”, the supply shock from lost production capacity and countries refilling reserves will keep oil prices higher for the next 3-5 years easily, and that’s if the straight “opens” soon. I put open in quotation marks because for the foreseeable future, Iran will now control the straight. Oil prices start getting low again… who cares what OPEC thinks, Iran will just close the straight to traffic for a bit to get what they want. Oil has a new floor, and it’s well above the 70$/barrel oil stocks are currently priced at.

SamLeCoyote_Fix_1

XOP etf, US oil producers + $SM, SM Energy, low P/B and P/E fwd

SamLeCoyote_Fix_1

Clearly, Trump returned from China talking about oil sales and agricultural products, rather far removed from the tech sector... The US is exporting to new customers, taking the place of some Middle Eastern producers. If the coming week brings new bombings, the resulting chaos will further complicate a return to "normal." The new average price of WTI has jumped from $65 to $90. For US producers, those who don't pay for shipping war fees, this difference is enormous for future hedge contracts and sideline sales. We're going to see some crazy Q2 results in the oil sector !!! The XOP ETF seems well-positioned.

Leveraged_Lots

XOP for the production side and OIH for the services side

Realanise1

Well, since this is the only place on this sub where any discussion that involves even the mention of the economic impact of the permanent control of the strait of Hormuz without comments getting instantly deleted... I'll share here that I bought oil and gas exploration and refinery EFT shares (XOP) yesterday and they went up today. I'll be investing more in that area next week.

Realanise1

Yeah, but nothing about basic geopolitical reality has permanently changed, so what could possibly go wrong?? FWIW, I put a small investment into State Street SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Expl & Prod ETF (XOP) yesterday, and it went up today! I think I'll invest more in either them or similar funds. It's against the rules to talk about why, though. What a shame, a lot of people will miss out on discussing some great buying opportunities.

SamLeCoyote_Fix_1

Second on my list ! I like it. Well represented in etf XOP

Gom_KBull

wouldnt XOP see more price action proportionally?

RenfrowsGrapes

Uhh XOP hello what r u doing

RenfrowsGrapes

In real life you’re correct. In the paper market tho your logic has flaws. Spy is ripping cuz of AI fomo and the supply chain backlog and those traders could give af about the oil price. Your thesis is right your play is wrong. You want something like XOP or BNO or USO or UCO calls

Ahamadrayasbaboon

Or XOP

Intrepid_Cup2765

I have 15% of my portfolio in XLE and XOP. It’s done remarkably well since 2020 when I bought them. The oil sector as a whole is incredibly undervalued, and is where all the money will be at for the next few years as the world recovers from the hormuz crisis. I firmly believe Hormuz is going to teach the world how they’ve been taking oil for granted this whole time. Renewables will grow a lot in the next few decades, but never enough to stop the growth of the oil sector. The only technologies out there that could seriously compete with fossil fuels in meaningful ways is Nuclear or Geothermal, and anyone outside of china is not rapidly deploying either of them, so you can guarantee oil will be growing for the rest of our lives.

ChungWuEggwua

You would likely be selling before XOP and XLE breakout. SPY is likely about to crash and big money will probably pile into oil and gas stocks.

Intrepid_Cup2765

I just buy the sector (XLE and XOP), and sit back and enjoy! Prices aren’t even as high as they were in 2022, and this disruption is 4-5x as worse (and likely will last even longer), so it’d be foolish to think this is the top.

sexyshadyshadowbeard

You picked the wrong oil investment. The money to be made has been in futures and it left you behind a month ago. Sure XLE and XOP are going to be profitable, but they're not where the real money is being made right now - also don't expect the market to chase oil alone. It's chaotic and unpredictable. Energy, in general, is a good investment though. To say renewables won't move the needle is naive, at best. We need energy from everything and everywhere. Oil by itself isn't going to cut it, neither is LNG. There's also no mention of nuclear in your argument, which is a total mistake. You could be in companies that build the turbines that go into energy plants, invest in an oil field and get a massive tax credit, put some into energy storage, solar and nuclear and do quite well for years to come. But, my point is, the market doesn't care about just oil even though the world does. And... that's just the energy sector. AI is also driving a lot of this which has it's own investment thesis to consider.

Gom_KBull

# XOP gon hit 200 by EOW 🥰🥰🥰🥰

jrex035

Genuinely hilarious price action in energy equities these days. On the whole they keep dumping despite the energy crisis growing worse by the day. Until of course they report earnings, then they skyrocket, because of course they do, energy equities are ridiculously underpriced right now. Go look at the price action of HAL and BKR (both of which reported earnings this week) compared with etfs like XLE and XOP and you'll see what I mean. A ton of energy companies will be reporting earnings in the next 2 weeks, now is a great time to pick up quality companies at low prices

uvallie

Gave up on USO for anything beyond swing trades ages ago for the exact spread reason you mentioned. XOM and CVX is where I ended up most of the time. for pure oil exposure what worked better than ETFs for me was XOP or OIH which are the producers and services baskets, still index flavored but way more liquid than USO on the options side. XOP in particular has tight spreads at weekly strikes. USO has the contango drag on top of bad option liquidity so even when your call IS right directionally the fund can lag crude by a surprising amount over a few weeks, not a fun surprise if you are holding anything out to 30 or 60 dte. if you want the pure oil view and are ok with futures, /MCL is worth looking at since its 1/10 the notional of /CL so way less buying power needed per contract.

Elegant_Primary_7133

USO spreads are rough. XLE or XOP have better liquidity. Futures or micro crude offer cleaner execution

Bromoblue

Someone who actually knows how this shit works mind explaining why USO is trending red but XLE & XOP is trending green?

OftenOlives

Everyone moving to make their own deals with Iran really forced the United States's hand here. Just letting people make deals would look too embarrassing, and like a total defeat. I don't see how this isn't going to majorly piss off all of Asia though. India, Korea, Japan are all going to be obliterated by this. China, too? Hope everyone has bought into XOP kek

Gom_KBull

XOP

magic-grits

I sold everything 3/14. Moved into BWET, GLDM, and XOP. It popped but it was so volitive i couldn’t handle the swings, especially being full port. I sold a couple days later for a decent profit. Just been sitting in SGOV since 3/20. I’ll buy tonight if the deadline gets pushed but just normal stocks. Im not cut out for commodities futures haha.

Cautious-Day3477

I dont usually choose that many. I would only choose 1 or 2. One bit of advice is that once you have made some profit on these ETF shorts, dump them ASAP. Holding these stocks too long can really kill your portfolio. As far as oil and energy stocks, i like XOP and XLE. Good luck!!

MatterFickle3184

Yeah baby let's go! I went balls deep into XOP

DuckTalesOohOoh

Bring on the dancing horses. I'm loaded up in XOM, XOP, and XOE.

WrexyWrex

I told you as soon as my last banbet was done you could buy puts. XOP reach 175, it's not like it's going lower dumb fucks.

Oneok-Field

I threw 20k into the dip EOD into $XOP

FxkCanA

The war is ramping up. Infrastructure in the area will take minimum 3 years to repair. Prices are not coming down. Buying XOP and XEG while I wait for the real dip.

WrexyWrex

this is obviously not my only short position but ya'll thought i was crazy that even XOP would come down lol

SirBobPeel

Doubt it. All the oil stocks were up earlier today. Then the price of oil shot up and all the oil stocks dropped hard. XOP, XLE, VDE, XES, COP, MPC, all up earlier, now firmly down.

magic-grits

Im betting on chaos rn GLDM, PBDC, BWET, XOP. Christmas wishlist which I will rotate into when the dust clears: META, MU, TSLA, GOOG, AMZN, NVDA. I figure thats atleast a week away though probably more.

WrexyWrex

the point of my banbet (XOP puts) is that everything goes down!!!!

Chemical-Coconut-203

Excuse me XOP wtf r u doing

magic-grits

Same, here and in other subs. I was downvoted to oblivion when I said there’s no more off ramp 3 weeks ago. I also said ground invasion is likely and will end terribly, and that we might see $200/barrel by the end of April. We’ll see if it actually gets that bad. I sold everything 3 weeks ago. I left the money in fidelity sitting in SGOV since then. This morning I put it all in GLDM, PDBC, BWET, and XOP. These were always my safety picks but everything was way too volatile the past few weeks. However, I think we are getting past the point where trump can lie in a tweet and convince markets nothing is wrong. Reality is setting in. Now is the time to rotate into your safety/hedge securities.

rhschumac

XOP

dxu8888

energy is overvalued here. It's up 50% this year XOP. think about it . an oil company might make 50% more money this year. but every year going forward? nah I think Sprouts farmers market looks good here.

Oneok-Field

Look at what's being held by $XLE, $VDE, $IXC, $XOP

daddyspain69

Hear me out boys. $25K in calls on XOP with 4/17 expiration. We sell during the ground invasion at peak hysteria

daddyspain69

Hear me out boys. $25K in calls on XOP with 4/17 expiration. We sell during the ground invasion at peak hysteria

WrexyWrex

if you are worried about the rest of the market not going down because of this, don't be. we still go down but this means XOP with it.

Oneok-Field

I'm not going to pretend to be some pro investor, but one thing I've learned with age is that if you're going to invest in hype: invest as direct as you can, don't try invest at N degrees of separation. If you think Oil is going to surge you should be looking at companies under $XOP, $VDE, and $XLE ETFs for equity plays. Or of course commodities.

Scared-Signature-452

I can tell you which stocks in my portfolio went up today, in case you are interested: CEG, FSLR, NXT, XOP, WVE, GLD. I also bought ASTS and GLD today.

shieldwall66

XOP

Oneok-Field

XLE, VDE, IXC, XOP for ETFs

Oneok-Field

XOP, XLE, IXC, VOLT, URA, NLR (energy)

MarzNstarZ

look into XOP if you want pure oil beta without paying XOM prices, it moves way harder on crude swings. FANG is another one worth watching, smaller than the majors but cleaner leverage to the move

ryallen23

lol literally nothing is safe to buy or hold right now. I guess XLE/XOP are about as close as you can get to safe, but when we swing around super hard in both directions hour to hour, those ultimately aren't either. especially if the US somehow executes a perfect capture of the island. that would be the ultimate trolling of WSB

WrexyWrex

!banbet XOP 175 2w

Oneok-Field

XOP is safer, imo.

DuckTalesOohOoh

To my admirers, a daily reminder that I bought XOP in the 30s during COVID. The dividends have paid for my costs since then. Highly recommend.

Scared-Signature-452

I poured 11K into XOP statestreet oil yesterday and soon after peace broke out. FmL

OftenOlives

LMAO 🥭 jingling keys at the oil market, sorry friend I we up until demand destruction starts kicking in. Texas = El Dorado, XOP to $200

Oneok-Field

XOP is safer imo But I'm also fairly risk adverse, I have positions in neither.

80sCocktail

I bought XOP in the 30s during COVID. The divvies have practically paid back my costs. Middle East wars are amazing.

TheInkDon1

"Something is *always* going up, it's our job as traders to find it." That's my philosophy, and I believe it's true. Though in 2000 and 2008/9 I wasn't paying as much attention to my trading as I am now, so I can't 'prove' it. But now I'm watching daily (or nearly) and taking notes of all my trades, as well as weekly account balances. Are we in a bear market now? No. Are we in a correction? No. But are we headed in that direction? Sure looks like it. Have you looked at a 1-year or 3-year chart of the S&P or Nasdaq lately? Going down. This is [SPY and QQQ](https://stockanalysis.com/etf/compare/spy-vs-qqq/). Change the view to 5 years, then 3 years. Both are clearly going down. SPY peaked at 695 on 2/2. It's at 648 today, down 6.7%. 10% is a "correction," and 20% is officially a bear market. Did you look at the chart of the 3 ETFs I'm in? Let me pull one of them out and compare it to SPY: [XOP vs. SPY](https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/compare/xop-vs-spy/) The 3-month is a good view: XOP up 42%, SPY *down* 4.7%. Do you see how it works? The *whole market* doesn't go into correction or bear at the same time. It's just an average of the 500 companies in the S&P 500 Index. And even though that index is going down right now, I guarantee you could look through those 500 companies and find many that are going up. That's why I say it's our job to find them. Just because you're told we're in a bear market, don't sit in cash: find the things that are still going up. There'll always be some. Take care.

TheInkDon1

I've been investing/trading for 30 years, mainly swing-trading momentum. Then 5 years ago decided to finally learn options. Did everything you can "do" with them. Finally came back to basics: options are a tool you use to express your opinion on a ticker. They're not a thing you have to find a suitable ticker to use an "options strategy" on. After being burned too many times by individual stocks, I only do ETFs now. Think they're boring? Check out these 3 I'm in right now: [GSG, PDBC, XOP](https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/compare/gsg-vs-pdbc-vs-xop/) Change the view to 3 months: that's the sort I use on "ETFs with options," past 3-month performance. Now change to 1 month: these are doing 17 to 24% per month. Momentum in equity prices persists (Jegadeesh & Titman, 1993). Those ETFs will continue to go up at about those rates for another month or two or three, typically. Big deal, right? "15% a *month*? Pffff! I want 15% *today!*" But think about it: 15%/month doubles you in 5 months. Does that get your attention? But we haven't applied options yet: buy Calls. A long time out, and kinda deep ITM. Just outside 1 year (making them LEAPS Calls) at 80-delta works well. Why bother with LEAPS Calls? *Leverage.* XOP at 637DTE and 80-delta gives 2.4x leverage (Spot / Cost of Call) x Delta So if XOP only does 10% over the next month, you effectively get 24%. Want more? It's safe enough to come in to 90 days. (But NEVER go less than 80-delta. Just don't.) The 18Jun150C gives 4.5x leverage. So a 10% move in XOP becomes 45% on that Call option. It works very well for me. It's not sexy, and it's not an adrenaline rush every day, but the profits pile up. Try it.

JuiceBox079

I dumped all my oil put yesterday. I sold all of my calls last week. The bid ask is ridiculously far apart on the XOP at the moment

OftenOlives

Gonna take profit on XOP before demand destruction turns US oil into butt water. Fuck this retarded market and the idiots who turned fun volatility into a shit ber market. Hope you like DCAing, because trading is pointless I'm not salty fuck you

OftenOlives

Bessent should ban Oil exports and swap trade Brent. You know, just to really maximally fuck the rest of the world. That's the goal here right? Oil & gas shortages worldwide and the destruction of modern globalism? Anyway XOP calls

somewhere_cool

Kind of a personal decision. XOP is equal weighted whereas XLE is a bit more top heavy. Therefore XOP might have more torque in short-mid term, but I prefer the stability of the big boys at the top of XLE for a long hold

callsonreddit

XOP better than XLE?

GenesGeniesJeans

Im just cash, QQQ put LEAPs, XOP/energy right now, in that order. And a lil bit of short end bonds.

Commercial_Try9096

USO and UCO don’t own oil. They own futures contracts that they roll every month. In contango (next month’s contract costs more than this month’s), every roll is a guaranteed loss — sell low, buy high, repeat. That roll cost runs 2-3% per month, compounding to 20-30% annual drag. This is how USO returned only 15% over three years despite multiple oil spikes. UCO is 2x worse because it doubles the roll cost AND adds volatility decay from daily rebalancing. In a choppy market, which a war-driven oil market absolutely is, a 2x leveraged product can lose money even when the underlying goes up. Day 1: oil +5%, UCO +10%. Day 2: oil -5%, UCO -10%. Net: oil -0.25%, UCO -1.0%. That asymmetry compounds relentlessly. If you want to express a bullish oil view without contango eating you alive, look at equity proxies: XLE, XOP for broad energy, or individual E&Ps like EOG, AR, EQT that own physical reserves and benefit from higher realized prices without the roll bleed. Or if you want the short side of the oil shock, play the countries that can’t survive $100 oil INDA (India) imports 90% of its crude, half through Hormuz, and is at its 52-week low with record capital outflows. The worst thing you can do is buy UCO thinking you’re “leveraged long oil” and hold it for months. That’s not a position — it’s a donation to the futures curve. I learned the hard way playing with MSTU and UVXY until I did the math, they always went down harder and bounced back weaker so not really 2x

triviumfan4ever93

Gotcha so XOP $200c 12/31

triviumfan4ever93

YTD I’m down over 7%, looking to add more to XOP as the war continues. Maybe some TDVI as well

OftenOlives

XOP to $300

tigerdogbearcat

ENB, XOP, KMI Any oil stocks you prefer that are not heavily invested in gulf states should benifit a lot if this conflict is prolonged. Oil companies tend to do stock buy backs or just distribute more dividends during oil price spikes.

OftenOlives

XOP and USO are free money. If anyone thinks demand drawdown is going to match or exceed the subsidies going into exploration is going to be insane. US companies may say they do not want it. They may not be able to profit from it without subsidies. But I'll be damned if the bipartisan oil subsidy machine is dead (because my portfolio will be ruined)

OftenOlives

XOP to 300 by eoy

Gom_KBull

i was already up 60% on my XOP calls, so i dropped them for SPY puts. im a pussy with oil, but i know its early for the private credit destruction.

Gom_KBull

[SPY puts](https://imgur.com/a/6Iaqsn7) \+ \~1k from XOP calls i closed out around noon

OftenOlives

Hm oil is up crazy over the last 6 months... better buy more $XOP calls

Gom_KBull

Closed my XOP calls for 62% gain, holding my SPY puts

Gom_KBull

what the heck? Why is XOP not here

pimple_prince

PBRA 17.5 C - sold for 15% XOP 165C - sold for 15% Spy 675p -sold for 50% PANW 175c 4/17 - holding and down Iran might be out of missiles, so cyber warfare could be next

Chilinuff

XOP down a dollar since i bought puts at 3:45. You’re welcome for the cheap gas

Chilinuff

I got $5 on XOP calls. You’re welcome for the cheap gas everyone

Gom_KBull

Just bought 2x XOP Apr 17 2026 160 Call @ $7.20 

Potential-Whereas442

I had put options before this Iran thing based on the iea glut forecast. I’m hoping we get there by mid April. XOP AMD oxy

Pleasant_Arugula7571

The question is really whether Trump can deliver on the Iran threat quickly enough for markets to care. He said Iran nuclear was "obliterated" last year. That did not hold. The baseline here should be that these things take longer than the initial market reaction prices in. We are probably 6-18 months from any genuine ceasefire, and even then oil does not immediately snap back - structural damage to Iraqi and Kuwaiti infrastructure takes months to repair. The more interesting price signal is what the bond market does Monday. If 10-year yields fall hard on flight-to-safety demand while oil spikes, that creates a genuine policy dilemma for the Fed. They cannot cut into an oil shock without risking stagflation. They cannot hold rates while the economy softens on energy costs. I would actually watch XOP and XLE relative performance. If energy stocks diverge from crude - XOP lagging while crude keeps running - that is the market pricing in demand destruction faster than supply disruption. That spread has historically been a better recession signal than inverted yield curves at these oil levels.

Gom_KBull

already exited my XOP position... i do feel bad im not going to capture any of this, but meh gains are gains.

knyc3791

Natural gas is a sleeper pick. LNGX and XOP are my picks

deadfishlog

You’re better off buying baskets of ETFs and not individual stocks in these regimes I’ve found. Things like XOP, XLI, ITA, USO etc

Gom_KBull

**Bro.... i just woke up holding:** * *Coreweave puts* * *SPY puts* * *QQQ puts* * *XOP calls* HHAHAHAHAHAHAA # .·°՞(≧ᗜ≦)՞°·.

Gom_KBull

Just bought 5x XOP Sep 18 2026 160 Call @ $15.30 Hope im not too late

Gom_KBull

feels like everyone's thinking too hard, just gonna buy a few long dated XOP ATM calls and forget i had them

DesticularDorsion

XOP here, pretty good. I want this to be over quickly but it won't be.

Jbball9269

Yes. The iV crush will probably hit around 10am. I’m selling my XOP and XLE calls and holding my CNQ shares.

After-Question3165

XLE and XOP calls 🔥

deltasleepy

Some ETFs: XLE, OIH, XOP

GenesGeniesJeans

Ok why XOP shrek? I have calls for an Iran lotto but news is talks ended and “went well”

CompoteSpecialist618

Copper, Oil, Silver and Gold, wait for some correction in copper but start a small position (COPJ, COPP), start buying oil stocks NOW (XOM, VDE, XOP, OXY) start buying gold royalty companies and stocks now (small position and buy the dip in BTG, B, TFPM, GDXJ), wait on a retracement for silver down to $50 - $71.

GenesGeniesJeans

Bid ask on XOP is regarded. Is the US still doing the thing or what?

deltasleepy

Oil going to surprise everyone. For oil sitting in USO, XOP, XLE, XOM, CVX, and for copper I’m sitting in COPX as well.

Quiet_Foundation6218

Buying some small cap oils for a crazy squeeze.. XOP exploding

okiewxchaser

$XLE is primarily Chevron, Exxon and ConocoPhillips which means it’s responding to the Venezuela news $LNGX is down 2.5%, $XOP down 2%. So international energy is doing okay as shown by $XLE, domestic energy is taking a hit and will continue to until OPEC calms down

ranting_chef

Big oil companies? Or maybe just the XOP etf?

Artistic-Western6342

Your tech concentration mirrors the Nifty Fifty era. Index-hugging hides structural rot. ITA’s exposure to Boeing’s industrial lag is a liability; PPA offers better depth. XLE works, but XOP provides the upstream leverage needed for a supply-constrained decade. JPM and UNH are the only logical anchors. Because history proves that in tightening cycles, quality and scale always outpace the index.