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Light, Sweet Crude Oil Futures (NYMEX) CL
Updated: 2012-05-23 for the markets on Thursday, May 24th 2012.
Light, Sweet Crude Oil (NYMEX) 1,000 BAR; $ per bar.
- Regular Hours: 08:00 - 13:30 CDT
- Electronic: 17:00 - 16:15 CDT
- Min. Fluctuation: 0.01 ($ 10.000)
- Months Traded: all months
- Margin Initial: $ 6,885 Maintenance: $ 5,100 ( detail )
Support & Resistance
| SYM | CLN12 | CLQ12 |
|---|---|---|
| Date | 05/23/12 | 05/23/12 |
| R2 | 92.74 | 93.01 |
| R1 | 91.32 | 91.60 |
| PIVOT | 90.30 | 90.60 |
| S1 | 88.88 | 89.19 |
| S2 | 87.86 | 88.19 |
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About Light, Sweet Crude Oil Futures (NYMEX) CL
Light sweet crude oil futures and options are an outright crude oil contract between a buyer and seller. The contracts also serve as a key international pricing benchmark. This offers excellent liquidity and price transparency, as well as, providing the world's largest volume futures contract on a physical commodity. Light sweet crude oil futures and options unit of trading is 1,000 barrels. Delivery is provided for several grades of domestic and internationally traded foreign crude oils. There are 6 types of options comprising of American style, calendar spread, crack spreads, average price, European style and daily.
Crude oil is the world's most actively traded commodity, one reason being that the light, sweet crudes are preferred by refiners because of their low sulfur content and relatively high yields of high-value products including gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil and jet oil.
NYMEX is a member exchange of the CME Group, and also lists for trading electronically a financially settled futures contract for Dubai crude oil.
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SEASONAL TENDENCIES ARE A COMPOSITE OF SOME OF THE MOST CONSISTENT COMMODITY FUTURES SEASONALS THAT HAVE OCCURRED IN THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS.THERE ARE USUALLY UNDERLYING, FUNDAMENTAL CIRCUMSTANCES THAT OCCUR ANNUALLY THAT TEND TO CAUSE THE FUTURES MARKETS TO REACT IN SIMILAR DIRECTIONAL MANNER DURING A CERTAIN CALENDAR YEAR.EVEN IF A SEASONAL TENDENCY OCCURS IN THE FUTURE, IT MAY NOT RESULT IN A PROFITABLE TRANSACTION AS FEES AND THE TIMING OF THE ENTRY AND LIQUIDATION MAY IMPACT ON THE RESULTS.NO REPRESENTATION IS BEING MADE THAT ANY ACCOUNT HAS IN THE PAST, OR WILL IN THE FUTURE, ACHIEVE PROFITS USING THESE RECOMMENDATIONS.NO REPRESENTATION IS BEING MADE THAT PRICE PATTERNS WILL RECUR IN THE FUTURE.
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