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Short-Term Price Movements after Volatility in Oil

April 30, 2025

Oil prices are influenced by a wide range of dynamic and interrelated factors including but not limited to geopolitical events, supply and demand shifts, speculators, hedgers, and even trader sentiment. Despite their unpredictability, large price swings in oil show signs of mean reversion, allowing for statistical approaches to examine how oil prices historically have behaved in the days following.

Volatility in Motion: The Day After a Large Natural Gas Price Move

April 9, 2025

Natural gas prices can be driven by factors such as weather patterns, storage levels, supply chain disruptions, changing demand for heating and power generation, and other unexpected macro economic events. Natural gas prices are generally more volatile than most other asset classes, including most other commodities, and with increased volatility comes increased risk - but also more opportunities for traders to capitalize on.

Impact of Weather, Exports, and Geopolitics on Natural Gas Prices

March 26, 2025

Natural gas has been trading near or above $4.00 for a few weeks now, which is at the higher end of its 10-year trading range - aside from 2021 and 2022, due to geopolitical events. Seasonal expectations of lower gas prices have not materialized yet, due to near-record exports of liquified natural gas, or LNG.

Crude Oil Sliding on Tariffs

March 19, 2025

Crude oil markets are tightly tied to economic growth where traders recognize that slowing growth from tariffs is expected to depress oil prices as demand drops, and that unexpected higher economic growth is expected to lead to higher crude oil prices with increased demand.

Seasonality with Natural Gas

March 5, 2025

Traders look for seasonality patterns when considering natural gas futures prices. While there are other factors to consider, changes in the weather and just as importantly, expected changes in the weather contribute to natural gas futures price activity by driving demand higher.

Trading on Volatility in Commodities

February 25, 2025

When considering high conviction, short-term trading opportunities, as a trader, it may be beneficial to look at asset classes with higher volatility, because alongside the increased risk, there is greater opportunity for returns.

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All investment funds, including those that seek to track an index are subject to risk, including the possible loss of principal. Diversification does not ensure a profit or protect against a loss in a declining market. While the Longpoint ETFs are designed to be as diversified as the original indices they seek to track and can provide greater diversification than an individual investor may achieve independently, any given ETF may not be a diversified investment.