US gas prices have surged to record highs of $5 a gallon, hitting American drivers hard and creating a political nightmare for President Joe Biden. Analysts say gas prices are much higher than they ordinarily would be, when compared with the price of crude. That's because of what Goldman Sachs has called "unprecedented" bottlenecks at oil refineries, where crude oil is converted into usable products like gas.
Probalility : Your Sample business transaction of HY refers:
Your twin brother's gain or lose in derivative depend on the magnitude of refined and crude price divergence ie widening of narrowing of crack spread.
Let's put some numbers to your illustration.
Your cash transaction : you sell to me gasoline @usd140/bbl correspondingly you buy crude USD120/bbl your crack margin USD20 (140-120)
Your twin brother's future trading : Your twin brother sell crude @USD120/bbl His long position 4 weeks ago was @USD120/bbl (assuming no change to crude) He is breakeven here.
At the same time he buy gasoline @USD140/bbl His short position 4 weeks ago was @USD130/bbl (ie crack margin was USD10 ) He lost (USD10/bbl) because crack spread has widen to USD20 in cash market. Your twin brother's suffer bigger derivative lose when crack spread widen from previous month.
On the contrary, your twin brother make gain when crack spread become smaller than previous month.
My brother hedged at USD10/brl a month back right. Now the net effect of my cash market transaction margin of USD20/brl and his lost at -10USD/brl had returned us back to the original hedging value of USD10/brl.
Thats why the margin after hedging gain or loss always lag 1 month.
If my brother had made gain on his Futures trading, my cash market margin would have shrunk by the same magnitude bringing our combined effective margin back to USD 10/brl again.
Posted by Johnzhang > Jun 12, 2022 3:00 PM | Report Abuse
Thats why we can expect HY Q2 results to be exactly as per market opportunity without hedging as it is for Mar, Apr, May performance, i.e lagging 1 month.
On Q1 22, it was showing the performance of Dec 21', Jan 22', Feb 22' crack spread with the added loss from probably buying a lot of russian oil in Feb 22' (due to its discounted price) and getting rejected by Shell & Malaysian government in Mar 22'.
Assuming gasoline price go up USD10 per month for next 2 months while crude stay averaging USD120 (ie no change) , your realised crack margin is again negated by USD10 derivative loss for the next 2 month. So, for 1 qtr sales your realised crack margin averaging (10+20+30)/3 =20 The spot crack margin is (20+30+40) = 30 (without hedging) The opportunity loss can be substantial when crack spread continue to trend higher.
But the absolute profit can still be very high after the hedging loss. -------------------------------------------------- Assuming gasoline price go up USD10 per month for next 2 months while crude stay averaging USD120 (ie no change) , your realised crack margin is again negated by USD10 derivative loss for the next 2 month. So, for 1 qtr sales your realised crack margin averaging (10+20+30)/3 =20 The spot crack margin is (20+30+40) = 30 (without hedging) The opportunity loss can be substantial when crack spread continue to trend highe
HY will be able to realize Mar, Apr and May for Q2 and their crack spread is very strong (refer chart on the article shown).
Apr, May and June averages about the same
Posted by Johnzhang > Jun 12, 2022 3:27 PM | Report Abuse
Assuming gasoline price go up USD10 per month for next 2 months while crude stay averaging USD120 (ie no change) , your realised crack margin is again negated by USD10 derivative loss for the next 2 month. So, for 1 qtr sales your realised crack margin averaging (10+20+30)/3 =20 The spot crack margin is (20+30+40) = 30 (without hedging) The opportunity loss can be substantial when crack spread continue to trend higher.
Hahaha this monkey kid thinks his opinion matters.NATO lah you.No action talk only. Me only post for fun anyway.Anyone win doesnt share with me,lose dont blame me. Such simple stuff also dunno.You think ppl will thank you ka kid?LMAO.
It seems Ukraine is about to lose the war and Russia may decide to end its so called "special military operation" in a month or two. What would be the effects on oil price if it happens then?
Koon Yew Yin said Heng Yuan will hit all time high but it is like dumping money into the salt water sea. Eat salty fish and you can stand the salty taste,
Only if wars were so easy to end like a switch. So what war ends? My guess Russian oil embargo will continue for years to come like how they did it on Iran. LOL
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Posted by Want2MakeMoney > 2022-06-12 14:23 | Report Abuse
US gas prices have surged to record highs of $5 a gallon, hitting American drivers hard and creating a political nightmare for President Joe Biden. Analysts say gas prices are much higher than they ordinarily would be, when compared with the price of crude. That's because of what Goldman Sachs has called "unprecedented" bottlenecks at oil refineries, where crude oil is converted into usable products like gas.