Optionsellers.com Blows Up As Crude, Natural Gas Turmoil ‘Capsizes’ Clients
It looks like some folks ended up being collateral damage this week when a forced unwind in a long WTI/short nat gas bet threw - sorry - gas on a raging fire both with regard to the selloff in crude and the surge in natural gas.
That apparent liquidation moment conspired with hedging dynamics (from dealers who sold puts to producers) to exacerbate the price action in crude and before you knew it, things spun out of control.
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Death Blow! WTI, Nat Gas Bet Gone Awry Is ‘P
What was the catalyst for a NAT GAS spike?
There are theories that a bond whale(s), or PG&E were forced to unwind massive amounts of futures. Maybe the whale is just Goldman, par for the course…
What’s becoming very worrisome to me is these volume black swans seem to becoming frighteningly more common. The vol spike in Feb, the FB disappoint, Yuan spike in October, the Gas spike, GE wipeout, the oil decline. All flavors of high sigma events. Even Macrotourist has a post about positioning for a treasury high sigma,,.
Someone should call the suicide hotline for Mr. Cortier… he looks ready to buy $rope…
I don’t mention GS, the “Iron Bank” lightly. It’s also possible the 1MDB fiasco, which despite the FTs hagiographic reports, is just another day at GS, and the Malaysian Sov fund debacle is unwinding all sorts of positions to save the cartel on Wall Street… Kevin Muir’s vol bond hedge may come in handy as this under-covered shitshow unravels.
Greece will be paying GS ~600 million eu until 2036! Nice bonus for all that misery. Malaysia may be the next sucker, it appears.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1Malaysia_Development_Berhad_scandal
I like the nautical aspect of the Joseph Hazelwood of the options market. Looks like he is headed to his cabin to finish off the Balvenie.
I miss Balvenie. But I can say from personal experience that the best thing for him to do right now is most assuredly NOT to hole up in the cabin and drink. lol
I tried FC Stone for currency trading about a decade ago. They lost 99% of the money I put in within a year.
I spoke with these lawyers who are apparently traders themselves and are leading the charge against OptionSellers and FC Stone: http://www.optiontradinglaw.com/