Mkikuyu- Akili timamu
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- Feb 16, 2018
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You have said Zero.. I have told you march future contracts were honoured in full despite there being demand slump in mid-march.Hedging?? Dude you are wrong. Hedging represents a small amount of oil trade. Countries especially china import tonnes of oil for strategic reasons not hedging.
The reason oil dropped is due to demand(Flights reduced by 90%, people did not move about decreasing demand for car fuel meaning companies were left with excess oil), futures had nothing to do with it. Demand for oil slumped to negative territory in America. Quit the sophistry to try and look intelligent.
Also yes, I understand and know derivatives. Derivatives do not determine the price of a commodity (Read black scholes equation) as you tried to claim. It is the price of the base commodity on the market that determines the price of the derivative whether it is a CDO(Collateral debt obligation) or Futures. Before you comment on financial instruments try and read books on financial management by frank fabozzi. How did I know all this? I developed the software used by cyton for portfolio management and I had to catch up to years of financial management knowledge in a matter of months. Also read up on stochastic processes in mathematics.
You are also wrong Italy (March 2020), Britain (March 2020) went into lockdown in Q1, but also again I have to question your economics credentials, You do realize a lot of flight restrictions were placed in Q1 across the world? You do also realize that job losses across the world started in Q1 which means international demand slumped?
NB: If you want to understand derivatives (which from your comment you have no idea what they are) read up on black scholes equation and books written by frank fabozzi.
That's why there was glut.
Do yourself a favour and bring data from April