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- From: jmemon@shearson.com (Janine Memon)
- Subject: Re: Oil Futures
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.211705.16019@shearson.com>
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- Organization: Lehman Brothers, NY
- References: <2387@sdrc.COM>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:17:05 GMT
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- In article <2387@sdrc.COM> pmchapm@sgipm3.sdrc.com (john chapman) writes:
- >Keywords:
- >
- >A friend of mine had an interesting idea, and I thought I might get
- >some opinions on it. It seems that during the gulf war, the price
- >of oil per barrel shot up to $45 or so from around $18. Now, its
- >nearer to the $18 per barrel price I think. His plan was to invest
- >a couple hundred bucks into oil futures hoping that Saddam would
- >get cocky and pull something as soon as Clinton steps in. I'm not
- >sure how he calculated this, but he said that if the price went to
- >just $35 per barrel, a $100 investment would soar to the multiple
- >thousands in value. Could someone verify or nullify this calculation,
- >and voice some opinions on the plan as a whole?
- >
- >Thanks,
- >John
- >
- I do not believe, when investing in oil futures that it is possible to
- invest only $100. I'm only familiar with treasury futures and the like
- but I know that these futures are sold in contracts and that the contracts tend to be
- in very large sizes.
-
-
- Janine
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