In addition to going long and going short, oil traders have another option--they can take a
spread position in which they simultaneously buy and sell futures contracts.
I got in the left cockpit seat and reached over to move the blade-fold switch to the
spread position. Everything seemed to work as advertised.
He may have designed Valhalla, or had a hand in it, but he bowed out at halfway in 1996 -
spread position 88.
The defaulted portfolio contained a large
spread position between Nordic and German Power that was negatively impacted by extraordinary fluctuations in the spread.
Yes, but so were six others and that made their
spread position 10.5!
I like the whole
spread positioned in the five to 10-yard range, so that if they commit like they are supposed to, hitting the relatively small vital zone or lopping off the head of a longbeard becomes a much higher-odds proposition.
In wheat traded on the Chicago Board of Trade, reported commercial-end users held only 306,000 contracts, while swap dealers and managed money (which are non-commercial) held a combined 346,000 in their long-short positions.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>They held another 78,000 in
spread positions.