- 24 Feb 2021
- By CME Group
Trending product: Weekly WTI options around the March 4 OPEC meeting
This update provides answers to common questions asked on trading WTI Weekly options around the upcoming March 4 OPEC meeting.
How are traders using WTI Weeklies in their hedging strategies?
Product |
Expiration |
CME Direct |
Bloomberg |
Reuters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Crude Oil Weekly options Wk 1 |
05 Mar 2021 - Fri |
LO1H1 |
CLWA Comdty |
0#CLW+ |
Crude Oil Weekly options Wk 2 |
12 Mar 2021 - Fri |
LO2H1 |
Pro tip: bookmark the options expiration calendar for future use
What trading strategies do traders use for LO?
Our article Hedging with WTI Crude Oil Weekly Options provides a range of use cases and strategies for weekly WTI options for storage, upstream, and downstream risk management.
Additional questions?
Contact us at energyoptions@cmegroup.com.
Industry leaders continue to lean on the CME OPEC Watch Tool as a method to measure portfolio risk and market volatility from uncertainty around OPEC meetings. This tool uses NYMEX WTI Crude Oil options pricing from weekly and monthly contracts expiring closest to the meeting to provide a calculated probability of outcomes.
This QuikStrike powered tool features:
- A calculated probability of outcomes, updated daily, for the next OPEC meeting
- A history of the tool’s results since April 2016
- Weekly WTI options open interest
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Every two weeks, CME Group publishes exclusive insight from oil market analysts at PVM. Each chart looks at a lesser-known aspect of the global oil markets, coupled with a sharp, succinct explanation.
Our current Chart of the Week reviews OPEC+ output ahead of its next meeting.
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