Negative Oil Prices: Explained

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Earlier this week we've started seeing articles noting that oil prices have now gone into the negatives (meaning investors are paying to give away their oil).
What is going on here? How does this make sense?
As always with these weird and wonderful things, it's all basic economics. And to properly understand this, we're going to need to look at 3 things: Negative value items, the 2020 oil market, and how oil is actually sold!
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Sources & Citations -
Lee, K., Ni, S., and Ratti, R.A., 1995. Oil shocks and the macroeconomy: the role of price variability. The Energy Journal.
Pirrong, C., 2011. The economics of central clearing: theory and practice.
Guay, W., and Kothari, S.P., 2003. How much do firms hedge with derivatives?. Journal of financial economics
Pirrong, C., 2009. The economics of clearing in derivatives markets: Netting, asymmetric information, and the sharing of default risks through a central counterparty. Asymmetric Information, and the Sharing of Default Risks Through a Central Counterparty
Articles -
- nytimes.com/article/negative-oil-prices-facts-history.html
- forbes.com/sites/sarahhansen/2020/04/21/heres-what-negative-oil-prices-really-mean/#2c19d87a5a85
- barrons.com/articles/negative-oil-prices-from-the-folks-who-brought-you-the-financial-crisis-51587549601
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Mostly, they agreed on a price weeks or maybe months ago, and suddenly that price is total bullshit, and to make it worse, they agreed, if they cannot sell the stuff, they have to store it, and suddenly nobody wants it. It is the filling up of a pipeline. In the case of oil, sometimes even a literal pipeline. And our current economy made the pipeline sensible with much longer than wider, so to make a balanced trade, you need to know weeks or months before the amount of demand, to create the supply in time, but in two months, our demand plummeted like a rock, probably the greatest oil demand reduction pretty much ever, and the pipeline is filling up with the speed of the expected demand of two month ago. Our storage capacity is also limited, since it will go bad, quickly.

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Its like this - the speculator/investor buys a future contract for deliver of x amount of oil at a future date for a set price. He never intends to take delivery of the oil, but just wants to profit from a rise in the price of oil so he can onsell his contract to someone who actually wants delivery. If the price of oil fell a bit he can still sell the contract at a small loss. But in this case a lot of speculators had bet on oil going higher and all wanted to sell their contracts at once. The buyers kept dropping the price they would be willing to pay - then realising that there is no storage for the oil, they also did not want it - so the price went negative - you had to pay the buyer to take the oil. Apparently you must take delivery if you hold the contract, you cannot refuse it, so it becomes a problem that is going to cost you to make it go away; as it did in this case of negative valuations.

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Negative value item is not strange at all Remember the line in The Big Short "I got a negative carry of 20million a month"

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I would guess that it's non-participants participating in the market (people not in the oil industry buying and selling oil contracts without the physical capability to fulfill those contracts) and removing pricing incentives from oil producers. When oil exports from Russia and OPEC spiked, the most expensive oil producers (many of whom are American producers) should have shut down their wells immediately. Instead they kept on pumping because they had a contract to fill, despite there being no demand for the oil they were contractually required to produce.

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20 years ago, people played Fallout. A game about nuclear apocalypse triggered by lack of oil. Who would have known back then that negative oil prices would cause a crisis.

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An economic crisis caused negative oil prices, not the other way around.

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The price of oil doesn't go negative. It's the price of a futures contract that does. And all futures contracts are simply gambling.

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fix they want price below shale gas and nuclear energy ... so price never cross 60$

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In today's world you never know what is going to happen tomorrow Donald Trump hits Iran with someone missiles Crude at $100😅

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@@shivamshahorignal I dont think so. Every commodities will always have its peak then they started falling off the drain. Just 200 years ago, Tin was king. Now its nothing. With more going into hybrid technology. My bet is Oil is not going to be king anymore.

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not true. we arent in the renewable energy age. as soon as this is over price of oil will go back to normal.

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Thank you for the video. As always I found it very interesting, but I have an issue regarding the second part of the video (Pump and Dump). Most articles I read indicate that there were three major actors who contributed to situation on the oil market: Russia, OPEC and the US. Summarily put, what I read was that US producers pumped massive amount of oil to have the US dominate the market. The OPEC and Russia refused to stand down, and increased production in a defensive move. The increase in production led to the fall of prices, and ultimately the negative price situation when the production war met the virus. So why did you not mention the US at all in your video ? Why was everything pegged on Russia and the OPEC ? I hope I understood something wrong, because I am confused and questioning the reliability of information on your channel.

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It makes a lot of sense since it’s reported here in the UK that it’s specifically Texan Oil that’s reached Negative pricing. Texan oil primarily travels via pipelines and the main buyer is the US. Russian and Saudi oil doesn’t have this problem since they can be transported to net importer countries as usual. Texan oil doesn’t get exported as much so it costs to transport it thus the negative price

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What you are referring to is the 2014 dip in oil prices. As US shale companies started producing more and as hydraulic fracturing became more profitable, US output rose significantly. Saudi decided to maintain market share instead of cutting supply to maintain price as it often does. This tanked oil prices from over 100$/bbl to 30$/bbl WTI. Ultimately this is a battle that Saudi backed down on which led to the movement back to 60$ oil in the previous years. Coronavirus presented itself as a prime opportunity to try to harm US production again. This downturn was specifically decided by Saudi and Russia. www.macrotrends.net/2516/wti-crude-oil-prices-10-year-daily-chart

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Great video! Just a minor suggestion: You could have mentioned the benchmarks WTI and Brent used to price crude oil worldwide and that the price of WTI contracts for May 2020 went negative. Brent stayed around $20/barrel and so did the WTI contracts for June. Thanks!

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I can't imagine hows Venezuela doing

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Lovely Channel. Learnt alot from this channel. Would u mind talking about the oil, gold (precious metals) and other resources and what their relationship with economics is? Thanks

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Wouldn’t this be a perfect time for countries like the US with a strategic oil reserve to add to it?

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They already did at 11$

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Us reserve filled to capacity already.

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[@justicewarrior9187]

Once the economy's open Oil prices will be as high as never seen before

[@GavConnn]

8:55 so I should be able to get someone to pay me $160 to take a barrel of petroleum off their hands 🤔

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Theoretically yes, but good luck storing it and refining it. :)

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Lol, when he said petroleum costs roughly 4X what crude does, I thought the same thing... "what does that mean if the price is negative?"

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Now you will never get the oil you get the futures position. You settle it in cash no one uses futures to arrange shipment

[@sn5131]

Thank u for making this video. I was wondering why

[@noahr.5026]

Amazing video as always!

[@dffkll3058]

"Sure, there is fuel to power our caaaaahs..."

[@raykehr1832]

I’m waiting for weed to get in the negative lol.

[@Bradex.]

I might buy it for an investment

[@1293ST]

Thanks for making this vid brah. I know a thing or two about stocks and economic principles but no matter how long I thought about it I didn't really find a feasible solution for negative value apart from intercompany trading and waste disposal of sorts.

[@dustindustir521]

Great explanation thank you!

[@NoobToobJamarMemes]

These prices may be a bad thing for oil producers, but I'm loving the low prices!!! Gas is $1.49 where I am.

[@boterham7144]

NoobToob per gallon!????!!?

[@TuskForce]

Nothing's changed that much where I am. more than 4.10€/gallon

[@NoobToobJamarMemes]

@@boterham7144 Yes, per gallon!

[@NoobToobJamarMemes]

@@TuskForce I'm sorry to hear that. Truly.

[@hblaub]

I immediately thought of nuclear waste: By sitting on tons of Caesium 137 for example, I would really pay someone to get rid of it.

[@BearMeOut]

Search KZbin: health bracelet radioactive testing They put a piece of radioactive metal inside a bracelet/neckless design for comfort wearing it 24h. It madness. Some conspiracy theory Suggest it's a radioactive waste disposal scheme.

[@King-bx4ch]

Thank you, appreciate your vids.

[@isassetuba]

Been waiting for this this video like crazy

[@furinick]

you know something is really wrong when the thing that runs the world has a negative price

[@EconomicsExplained]

yeah it's never a great sign

[@ihl0700677525]

Lol. It's wonderful time for petrochem corporations and net oil importer nations.

[@blackkd0g]

Take us back!

[@ghost_trapz5932]

It’s rough out here

[@TalkoAllRight]

Excellent vid my friend! thx! totally sent it to my banker brother

[@philip2111]

Really interesting video, well explained thanks.

[@tthecreator743]

Can somehow explain how a future contract has value? I mean, if I agree with a person to buy item X for Y amount of money (considering Y is a very fair and average price) then I will have to pay Y amount of money on average. So it shouldn't in general have a market value hovering around $0? (sometimes there are more people who think it will go up, and other times there are more people who think it will go down). So my question is: why is a future contract, on average over time (under normal circumstances) traded for money? Like if I buy the contract for Z amount, I now have to pay both Y and Z!

[@DuyPham-xd8lp]

Tthecreator you dont paid double, once you buy a futures contract, you own it and wait for for the expiry date and exchange

[@Speed001]

P/F formula

[@slappy8941]

A futures contract is a promise by the seller to let the buyer have a commodity at a set price on a specific date. If on that date the current market price is higher than the contract price, the buyer completes the trade and makes a profit, but if the current market price is lower, then the buyer can choose to let the trade expire worthless, and the seller keeps the premium that the buyer paid to initiate the contract. A buyer may also sell the contract at any time up to the completion date.

[@tthecreator743]

@@DuyPham-xd8lp so you mean the price of the contract is the price of the goods, payed at the beginning when the contract is made/sold and then the goods are exchanged later when the contract expires?

[@wybo2]

Because you believe it will be worth more by the time the boat arrives than what the current owner is willing to sell it for. This obviously assumes that the current owner thinks he will get a better price by selling to some dumbass derivative trader right now than by holding on to it and selling it later, when the boat arrives.

[@satyamkr7520]

Please add cc please

[@ahnafislam6004]

Best video made by you that I've watched

[@lamarnash2439]

New fan... keep up the good work

[@shivamshahorignal]

The fundamental economic assumption of economic man (rational behavior) is in itself irrational😂😂😂😂😂

[@MatthewStinar]

Yeah, economists make pretty spreadsheets that bear no resemblance to the real world and then use the assumptions in those spreadsheets to trash the world.

[@Quwertyn007]

8:52 This is in fact incorrect. Since currently oil prices are negative and petrolium prices are positive, their quotient is negative. Thus it's less than 4.

[@samuelthornton9179]

4x the typical cost

[@UnipornFrumm]

This was the most educational video i seen this year

[@joejoeington6899]

This guy is really good at explaining things