".....as Goldman's commodity strategist, Damien Courvalin, who first predicted one month ago that negative oil prices are coming for landlocked producers, warns of "potential further distress ahead of the settlement window" tomorrow for the May WTI contract.
It gets worse from there because as we discussed earlier, the pain will then shift to the June contract, which expires on May 19:
The June contract will then become the prompt contract until its expiration on May 19. While it has outperformed significantly today, down only $4.60 to $+20.43/bbl, it will nonetheless likely see downward pressure in coming weeks...
"The May CME WTI contract expires tomorrow, April 21. Any holder of a long position going into settlement would then be obligated to take delivery of crude in Cushing during the month of May (either by transfer into a designated pipeline or storage facility or by in-tank transfer). This means that an investor long a WTI May contract would be forced to sell out of this position (at any price) before tomorrow's settlement to avoid being stuck having to find room for barrels in the Cushing storage hub which will likely be completely full by then (it is 77% full as of last Friday with the last 2-week builds pointing to stock-out by the first week of May).
Goldman then lists the following three reasons why the June future will be crushed next:
*the potential exit of spooked long retail investors given the violence of today's move (and the negative carry incurred at each contract roll),
*the negative impact of investors rolling their long positions from the June to the July contract in early May (the USO rolls on May 5-8), and ultimately
*the still unresolved market surplus that will hit binding storage capacity in coming weeks.....
www.zerohedge.com/commodities/...te-oil-today-goldman-answers
It gets worse from there because as we discussed earlier, the pain will then shift to the June contract, which expires on May 19:
The June contract will then become the prompt contract until its expiration on May 19. While it has outperformed significantly today, down only $4.60 to $+20.43/bbl, it will nonetheless likely see downward pressure in coming weeks...
"The May CME WTI contract expires tomorrow, April 21. Any holder of a long position going into settlement would then be obligated to take delivery of crude in Cushing during the month of May (either by transfer into a designated pipeline or storage facility or by in-tank transfer). This means that an investor long a WTI May contract would be forced to sell out of this position (at any price) before tomorrow's settlement to avoid being stuck having to find room for barrels in the Cushing storage hub which will likely be completely full by then (it is 77% full as of last Friday with the last 2-week builds pointing to stock-out by the first week of May).
Goldman then lists the following three reasons why the June future will be crushed next:
*the potential exit of spooked long retail investors given the violence of today's move (and the negative carry incurred at each contract roll),
*the negative impact of investors rolling their long positions from the June to the July contract in early May (the USO rolls on May 5-8), and ultimately
*the still unresolved market surplus that will hit binding storage capacity in coming weeks.....
www.zerohedge.com/commodities/...te-oil-today-goldman-answers
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