Posted on 01/20/2016 12:56:01 PM PST by bananaman22
Everyone knows that oil prices have crashed, and that has opened up a variety of avenues for investors to play the market.
Some may have been burned by staying long on the energy sector, others have tried to pick the bottom. Other investors have found ETFs that track the price of WTI, or ETFs that trade inversely to oil prices, which amount to bets that prices will fall further.
In these uncertain times, one strategy would be to bet not on oil prices rising or falling, but simply bet on oil price volatility. If that was your strategy, you probably did pretty well since late 2014. In fact, the CBOE Crude Oil Volatility Index (OVX) is at its highest point since the meltdown of the global economy in 2008.
(Excerpt) Read more at oilprice.com ...
Ping me when it is time for investors to invest in equities rather than traders “playing” with markets.
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