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How to Hedge Oil Prices in Volatile Markets

By Dr. Kent Moors, Global Energy Strategist, Oil & Energy Investor • @KentMoors_OEI • May 6, 2013

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Dr. Kent MoorsDr. Kent Moors

Welcome to the new pricing environment.

We're already started to see kneejerk reactions to short-term indicators last Friday.

A better than expected jobs report sent crude oil prices higher immediately. The figure was encouraging but not a barnburner. Of course, some massive upward revisions for the previous two months hardly hurt either.

Some of this is the result of investors still gun shy after a massive recession. Now we have certainly had a very nice bull market run and the prospects of another meltdown any time soon are negligible.

Nonetheless, the new drivers of oil prices provide little chance for real dynamics to work themselves out. This is all about reaction. Picture it as the newest investor version of smoke and mirrors.

Today's prospects are very good for the oil sector. Natural gas has pulled back from some heavy gains. Major losses earlier this week were erased on Friday. There is a range forming, and it is likely to remain absent any unexpected developments (largely geopolitical at this point).

Demand will increase as we move into the summer; global levels will rise quicker than domestic in the U.S. or Western Europe. That will provide some upward pressure on oil prices.

Remember as well that, while certain region such as the U.S. have a new largess in unconventional (tight or shale) oil, the full volume of that new production will be more expensive to bring on line. That means the additional extraction will not decrease the overall price.

However, the real question is how to make money if trading is in a narrow range for the near term.

You need to develop a new hedging strategy. Here's how...

Oil Prices: The Market Sector Approach to Hedging

Now the conventional hedge seeks to provide insurance against rapid price increases or decreases. You set up investments providing for a return regardless of which way the market actually moves. Each trading session, you are guaranteed a winner in one direction but a loser in the other.

A portion of the loaf is better than no slice in such an environment.

But how do you set up a convenient hedge when trading company stocks rather than commodities? With commodities you could easily buy a gold play, say SPDR Gold Shares (NYSEArca: GLD), that would rise when gold prices improve. On the other side, PowerShares DB Gold Short ETN (NYSEArca: DGZ) is a short fund and would improve if the gold price declined.

But this is far more difficult if one is focusing on oil companies rather than the oil itself. The approach I would suggest is to hedge using market sectors.

This approach would use producers, midstream, processors, and service companies to provide a better overall picture of the oil picture and improve return when trading is in a narrow range and demand is estimated to increase.

In other words, the picture we could be looking at for the next several months.

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Dr. Kent Moors is an internationally recognized expert in oil and natural gas policy, risk assessment, and emerging market economic development. He serves as an advisor to many U.S. governors and foreign governments. Kent details his latest global travels in his free Oil & Energy Investor e-letter. He makes specific investment recommendations in his newsletter, the Energy Advantage. For more active investors, he issues shorter-term trades in his Energy Inner Circle.

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