financial is mostly technical analysis...everything you need to know is on the price/volume chart. when i trade crude oil...i'm just using a chart and basic news feed for "risk events"...nothing else.

it takes time to learn all the technical patterns...doing it in realtime during the trading day is a learned skill that takes years

just google it...you're welcome
 
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Couldn’t disagree more about financial trading is all technical. For a gas trade you want to project what you think storage entry/exits are then run weather scenarios and see how that changes your storage balances then risk adjust your trades.

 

Very different thought process go into fundamental vs technical strategies. Taking a fundamental look at a commodities market involves primarily looking at supply and demand and identifying what factors will disrupt the current equilibrium and drive a change in the trading range. Technical strategies, you're looking to ride momentum and unload volume quickly

 

Balancing S/D factors? Can you explain? See, for me as a market maker... yes, fundamentals are important but for me, primarily when I'm quoting cal strips, I look for the value of the strips based on my pricing model and if I do see that I can make money and get flat to make a couple grand, great, that's what I want to do ideally. Do I want trade fundamentally? Of course and maybe I can put on prop trades but I was never the true fundamentals of NG market. So any explanation would be great. Looking at the EIA storage... wouldn't that be too delayed?

 
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Balancing S/D factors? Can you explain? See, for me as a market maker... yes, fundamentals are important but for me, primarily when I'm quoting cal strips, I look for the value of the strips based on my pricing model and if I do see that I can make money and get flat to make a couple grand, great, that's what I want to do ideally. Do I want trade fundamentally? Of course and maybe I can put on prop trades but I was never the true fundamentals of NG market. So any explanation would be great. Looking at the EIA storage... wouldn't that be too delayed?

You use the eia # to calibrate your model in semi real time. Based on my S/D I have an idea of what each # will be for the next 10 weeks. Now once the eia # comes out I compare it to my estimate. Was I off? If so which region? Why was it off? Was this a structural change or just noise? If structural you adjust your S/D. Where is my new storage balance, is it healthy ? If not how do I solve for this?

 

Every person/client that i know who traded anything leveraged using technical analysis lost their money, every one of them.

You killed the Greece spread goes up, spread goes down, from Wall Street they all play like a freak, Goldman Sachs 'o beat.
 

For physical the biggest trades are structured products for capacity and storage think open season from a pipeline , AMA from a utility. Capacity can be vanilla in that you can value it as an intrinsic spread between receipt (long) , and market (short). It’s really a basis spread that you can hedge financially. The issue is if your bidding on capacity your more than likely not going to win it if you bid in the futures spread (intrinsic) because of how competitive it is. Most people bid in intrinsic plus. Anything above the intrinsic value of the capacity is going to be extrinsic value that can’t be necessary hedged. That capacity now turns into an out of the money option. So what goes into the extrinsic value? For me when I look at extrinsic I see how it fits my portfolio , is there added synergies to my shorts (power load, retail load) or to my longs (producer services, storage). Can I segment the capacity and sell ancillary markets on top of the primary market I hedged? Finally is there optionality between other markets in the daily markets. I think Transco long haul is the best example of this, or even TETCO legacy capacity. Storage is whole beast in itself that is a out of the money option. You very rarely winning storage at intrinsic and your going to be wearing the extrinsic risk. Again storage you can hedge the summer , winter spread and set a optimal long / short schedule. From their your going to be trading cash to prompt/futures spreads. Moving around your futures trades via rolling intrinsic , or writing your own options by buying and selling months ie go long March / April spread. Some storages have optionality to deliver into different markets so you have that to trade as well. In my personal opinion any structured physical trade is just an option. A pure financial trade you have a lot more directional risk. Obviously it’s a commodity so supply and demand have most weight into price action. Summer will be storage report and CDDs forecast for power demand , and winter will be HDDs for utility weather sensitive demand. HDDs have a lot more weight into price since demand as a steeper slope. Also timing is important a cold forecast in the beginning of winter is different than a cold forecast later in winter think of that price rally back in the beginning of November. I use very basic technicals as a compliment to fundamentals to see when the market is over sold / bought but strong fundamentals will win every time. That Friday sell off after thanksgiving is a good example ... market was way over sold and bounced right back on Monday , than Tuesday colder forecast came in and propped up the market even more. Obviously other fundamental factors like production output, rig count goes into. The production output is what’s driving the bears right now keeping NG below $3.

 

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