Futures Spreads Explained: Strategies and Real Examples
Futures spreads let traders profit from price gaps, not price direction. Here's how inter commodity and calendar spreads work, why margins run lower, and a real trade example.

Futures spreads let traders profit from price gaps, not price direction. Here's how inter commodity and calendar spreads work, why margins run lower, and a real trade example.

Crude oil is the unrefined petroleum pumped from underground reservoirs and refined into fuels and chemicals. Here is how it forms, how it is priced, and why it moves markets.
NYMEX sets the benchmark for oil and metals prices that ripple into ETFs like USO, GLD and SLV. Here is how the exchange works, what it trades, and why its…
