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In a futures market, selling a nearby contract while at the same time buying an equivalent forward contract. The opposite strategy, buying nearby and selling forward, is known as borrowing.
Industry:Energy
The price at which an option holder has the right to buy or sell an underlying commodity/derivative.
Industry:Energy
Developed by John Bollinger, it's system based on the premise that prices revert to their mean. The standard deviation of the moves away from the mean are used to form two bands around the price. Whenever the price breaks below or above the band, it is deemed too extreme a move and therefore liable to correct back from the standard deviation towards the mean of the price.
Industry:Energy
Natural gas which does not contain liquid hydrocarbons. Gas is usually priced on a dry basis.
Industry:Energy
CCI measures the variation of an instrument's price from its mean. High / low values indicate that prices have moved too far from their mean. The usual range is +/- 100 and anything outside this is overbought or oversold.
Industry:Energy
Physical location where gas is delivered by a pipeline to a local distribution company.
Industry:Energy
The volume of gas flowing through a pipeline, ore processed by a concentrator etc.
Industry:Energy
A unit of heating value equal to 100,000 Btus, in common use in the UK. Roughly, you can get 56 therms by setting fire to a barrel of crude oil. The dekatherm, 10 therms, is a more commonly used unit in the US.
Industry:Energy
