What is Spot Energies Trading? • OpoForex

Spot Energies

Why trade spot energies with Opoforex?

Margin trading on Opoforex offers some unique opportunities to add the oldest, most timeless, and most reliable commodities to your portfolios, such as crude oil, natural gas, and coal.
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Broadens your investment portfolio

When compared to other conventional assets, spot energies appear to bear lower correspondence to returns. And as spot energies are classified as an individual asset group, it greatly diversifies your portfolio.

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The old becomes new again

As their prices typically escalate during hyperinflation times, Spot Energies are proven to be positive protection against inflation. This helps to retain equilibrium and works as a safe haven in times of economicinstability.

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Hedge against Event
Risk

In the scenario of a catastrophic event or economic recession, when supply turmoil occurs, by putting strategic leverage on price fluctuations, spot energies such as oil can protect you against great loss.

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High Leverage Facility

Blockchain-based technologies have revolutionized commodity trading. Commodity CFD trading represents a continuum between past and modernity. The stability of the commodity market acts as a counterweight to the volatility of other markets.

What is Spot Energies Trading?

However promising as the market looks, few investors consider investing in barrels of oil. Today, it is possible to trade commodities without having to own them physically. Opoforex offers Contracts for Difference (CFD) trading on the most popular assets, including energy and “soft” commodities.
The stock market oil that is the one on which it is possible to speculate online is traded in the form of barrels of crude oil. Oil is traded daily on the spot markets in the form of forwarding contracts. These contracts can be defined as commitments to buy or sell a certain quantity of barrels at a given maturity, generally 3 or 6 months. The price of such a sale or purchase is obviously known in advance. It is these contracts that allow traders to protect themselves from the risk of too strong variations in prices.
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SYMBOL FULL NAME CONTRACT SIZE TICK SIZE MARGIN (%) SWAP LONG (POINTS) SWAP SHORT (POINTS)
WTIUSD
Oil - US Crude
1000
0.001
2
-16
-1
BRNUSD
Oil - Brent Crude
1000
0.001
2
-1
-1
NGCUSD
Natural Gas
10000
0.0001
5
-2
-1

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FAQs

To start trading oil CFDs, the first step that you have to take is to learn how CFDs work and find a reliable broker. Before you even consider trading oil CFDs, it is wide to get an in-depth understanding of the market and the technical analysis tools since oil CFDs are high-risk and complex.
Brent Crude and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) are the most important benchmarks for oil trading in the world.
The oil market is global. But the crude oil has several regional grades, each one slightly different in terms of viscosity and Sulphur content. The major oil trading regions have benchmarks for monitoring the prices of oil commodities: WTI (USA) Brent Crude (Europe) Dubai Crude (Middle East) Western Canadian Select (Canada) Bonny Light (Nigeria) OPEC Reference Basket Urals (Russia) Tapis (Singapore)
Yes, oil trading is considered to be less risky than trading stocks. Also, it is a perfect way of hedging your stock portfolio since there is a negative correlation between equities and commodities.WTI (USA) Brent Crude (Europe) Dubai Crude (Middle East) Western Canadian Select (Canada) Bonny Light (Nigeria) OPEC Reference Basket Urals (Russia) Tapis (Singapore)
You will need to get acquainted with two oil reports: Department of Energy (DEO) Oil Inventory report Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Oil Market reportBrent Crude (Europe) Dubai Crude (Middle East) Western Canadian Select (Canada) Bonny Light (Nigeria) OPEC Reference Basket Urals (Russia) Tapis (Singapore)