I am looking into invesiting into Oil, how do you do that?

Answer 1

Let's see if I can provide some specific guidance. You can buy shares in integrated oil companies.

Here are some examples:
XOM, BP, COP, CVX, TOT

You can buy shares in producing companies. Here are some examples:

DVN, ECA, APA, APC

You can buy shares in refiners of oil. Here are some examples:

FTO, VLO

You can buy shares in limited partnership oil producers. Here are some examples:

PTF, PVX, ERF, PWI

The advantage of these is they pay out all of their earning in dividends.

You can also invest in an exchange traded index fund of energy shares.

Examples:

PXE, USO, VDE, XLE, XOP

USO is a pure play on the price of light sweet crude.

There are also mutual funds and exchange traded funds that you can invest in concentrate their investments in oil securites.

Examples are:

TYY, TYN, TYG, PEO, KYE, FEN, IENAX, FSTEX, UMESX, FSNGX, GAGEX, ICENX.

There are as you can ascertain many opportunities. These are the more conservative opportunities. You also have the option of investing in the futures market, but that is very risky because of the leverage. If the market goes against you, you can loose a lot of money.

Answer 2

theres an oil ETF called United States Oil (USO). If you invest in it, your money will directly follow crude oil prices. It trades like a regular stock.

Answer 3

You can buy oil futures or call options on them. You can buy stocks of oil companies or oil royalty trusts or call options on those stocks. You can buy actual oil deposits, if you have that kind of money.

Answer 4

HAL is a great buy. Listen to Jim Cramers Real Money on the radio. the dude is investment genius.

Answer 5

http://www.cftc.gov/cftc/cftcbeforetrade.htm?from=home&page=beforebasicscontent#basics

Keep in mind that when economies slow down, oil prices drop.

Answer 6

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