If I whant to buy brent oil barrel Do i buy the real oil or shares?
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You cannot buy a Brent Oil Barrel.\nThe minimum amount is 500 Barrels.\n\nThose wishing to trade NYMEX miNY™ energy futures must first establish an account with a New York Mercantile Exchange clearing member firm, either directly or through a brokerage firm that does futures business. \n\nYou only buy 500 Barrels of Oil if you are a Company that actually needs the Oil for something. For example if you are General Motors and you have a factory that makes plastic pieces for your cars you obviously need Oil because Plastics are made of Oil.\n\nIf you are not a Company and you don't need 500 Barrels of Oil you sell your contract before the expiration date to someone who actually needs the Oil.\n\nA Future is a Contract to buy 500 Barrels of Oil in the future for $75.00 each.\n\nOil futures are highly especulative and you should not invest in Oil futures if you don't have at least $1,000,000.00 in assets (excluding your primary residence)\n\nOnce you have bought a Future you have the obligation to buy the Oil.\n\nOn the other hand, Options give you the right (But not the obligation) to buy the Oil.\n\nOptions are highly especulative and you should not invest in options if you don't have at least $500,000 in assets (Excluding your primary residence)\n\nFor example, Oil is currently at $75 but if you think Oil is going up you buy an Option with the right to buy the Oil at $75 in the future and if the Oil goes all the way to $100 you make a lot of money.\n\nOn the other hand if Oil goes below $75 you lose your entire investment. \n\nFor example, Oil is currently at $75 but if you think Oil is going down you buy an Option with the right to sell the Oil at $75 in the future and if the Oil goes all the way down to $50 you make a lot of money.\n\nOn the other hand if Oil goes above $75 you lose your entire investment. \n\nIf you are serious about investing in Oil you can drop me a line.\n\nTop 10 Answerer in Business & Finance.
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You can day trade the ticker GLD, which is a gold-based EFT.  There's one other, Ishares Comex Gold or something like that, but I dont' know the ticker.\n\nGood luck, I hope you don't lose your money.  Commodities are notoriously unpredictable.
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you need to read the stock option plan.  they almost all have a clause on what happens in the event of a take over.
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They're all good to watch. Not many worth buying, unless you like being manipulated.\n\nAnyone with a million dollars or so can pump and dump these stocks and send their prices soaring, so that you get in, then plunging, so that you lose everything very fast. \n\nOr the average guy, you for example, can start a new company building furniture. It's decent stuff and you have it built in the Caymans so your cost is cheap and you make money. Take the company public and issue stock with an IPO. \n\nWhen the stock soars on the IPO, sell your shares and start a subsidiary, and put all your money into that new company making T-shirts. Of course, the furniture company's stock fell considerably, because you took all of the cash out. \n\nWhen you make money on T-shirts, go public, and when the IPO soars, sell your shares, and buy back the furniture stock at depressed levels. Of course, the T-shirt stock goes down the tubes, because you pulled the cash out, but hey, you're making a killing onthe stock.\n\nThis is legal manipulation. You've been warned. Penny stocks are very risky for a reason, or lots of reasons. Buy something with known value, that's been around awhile, and will continue to be around. So what if you can't buy as many shares? You can still double your money, and reduce your risk in half, by investing in the future of a stable company not ran or manipulated by shysters.
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No, profits are the American way. I doubt you were even born when the oil companies were struggling back in the mid-seventies and early eighties. Aquisitions and mergers have made them some of the strongest American companies.\nThere are now more known oil reserves world wide than ever before. There is also more demand than ever before. Hence oil is over $72 per barrel. We could get all we need from the Canadian oil sand deposits and it would be cheap. But it is being shipped around the world.\nFigure that
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You need to subscribe to an intraday commodity price feed.  Some brokers also offer you the ability to view intraday pries and depth as long as you have an account with them.\n\nNote that live, intraday prices usually incur live data royalties too.\n\neg. eSignal, Interactive Brokers\n\nSee the links below
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for what?  for personal use, or as an investment?  buy the futures on nymex.\nhttp://www.nymex.com/index.aspx
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Buy stock of GTL as many as you can.\nBelieve me, you will bathe in gold one day.
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"Futures" are just contracts for a delivery of a certain commodity (oil, in this case) for a "future" delivery. If oil prices never changed, then a oil futures contract would be the base price of oil plus some storage cost and administrative fees.\n\nBut this would make for some pretty dull trading and, in fact, oil prices do change -- and sometimes they change a LOT. Like all commodiities, the price is a function of the supply of the commodity v. the demand for that commodity. If supplies are short (e.g. OPEC announces it will cut production by 20%), prices will typically go up. If demand goes down (e.g. Big Oil, Inc. announces it can synthesize oil from old AOL disks, thus making oil as accessible as water), prices for the commodity go down.\n\nA trader may buy an oil futures contract (an agreement on a certain amount of oil at a certain point in the future) in the expectation that the price of oil will rise. If it does, the contract may be worth more. Since the trader doesn't pay the full amount of the contract, but only a small percentage,  the trader has a great deal of leverage and their profits (and losses) are much greater than had they simply bought oil itself. (You can also SELL the commodity first, planning to buy back the contract later when/if the price goes down -- a process known as "shorting".)\n\nAll commodities trading is a "zero-sum game". For every dollar won, someone loses a dollar. Futures trading is a truly excellent way to lose money in a stunningly fast manner.
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My opinion is only worth two points.\nBut the chance of oil topping $100 per bbl is greater than its dropping under $50.
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If the oil proce goes up then the gold also will go up
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check the threads agains the barrels you want to buythat will help you
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I would be very wary of purchasing any stock for the "traditional" airlines, including Delta. The airline industry as a whole has had serious financial problems over the last decade (maybe even longer) and the higher fuel prices are going to hurt business and profits even more. I'd wait till the price of oil stabilizes a bit and see how Delta handles the higher operating expenses before I purchased any stock. Since Delta has already gone into bankruptcy, the higher costs may push them back into bankruptcy and your stock would be pretty much worthless.
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Take that money and buy some KY instead of asking if you can use butter since you ran out of cooking oil...:p
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right now, buy in safety. Im talking about PG, GE, MO, BUD, ya know, stability. Stay away from the internets GOOG, EBAY, AMZN, MSFT, etc.\nIf you want growth, look at DELL, INTC, (both due to recover) and overseas (anything with Euro, Pound)
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There are some solid energy stocks up there. Take a look at NXY, ECA, or some of the Canadian energy trusts such as Canadian Oil Sands Trust. The trusts offer some steady returns from a predictable and valuable asset base (oil and gas reserves). Plus you get more bang for oyur buck if you figure the Canadian dollar will rise versus the US dollar over time.
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Not sure I understand the question.  If you want to change your shares owned, then buy more or sell some depending on the current price.