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marketsci.wordpress.com - 1/5/2009
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This is a drilldown (pun intended) on the strategy I shared last week that traded the oil sector using a ratio of oil stocks versus oil.
As a refresher, the graph below shows the (frictionless) results of the strategy in green versus buy and hold in blue, and for comparison, the inverse of ...
ritholtz.com - 1/12/2009
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ritholtz.com —
Yesterday’s 60 Minutes had a story on Oil
Speculation. Its not that they said anything wrong, its...
more that they told 10% of the story of the rise and fall of energy prices. Surprisingly thin, it completely missed all of the many other factors ...
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Oil Speculation ?
ritholtz.com - 1/7/2009
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ritholtz.com —
The major commodities indices are being rebalanced, and
I am forced once again to question their timing....
Recall the last major rebalance: At the time, I had been challenged by Larry Kudlow to find a smoking gun for the sudden 2006 collapse of Oil ...
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Here Comes the Commodity Index Rebalancing
econbrowser.com - 1/2/2009
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This is the first in what I'm planning
will be a series of posts discussing the contribution...
that the energy price spike of 2008 made to our present economic difficulties. In this first installment, I revisit a very interesting research paper on the ...
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The oil shock and recession of 2008: Part 1
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Monday links: return of arbitrage
Abnormal Returns —
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How rebalanced commodity indices will affect individual commodities. (FT Alphaville)
The gold-silver ratio is out of whack. (Crossing Wall Street)
What crack spreads are telling us about the crude oil market. (FT Alphaville)
A closer look at trading the oil/oil stock ratio. (MarketSci Blog)
The year in (higher) global volatility. ( ...
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