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Justafan's avatar

Wow. Can't believe oil is down $5. The market does not believe the same things I believe apparently? Another 10-11 barrels lost today, but apparently, it just doesn't matter!

Ben's avatar

Hi, I’m all aboard with the oil thesis and I was looking around for different ways to play it other than BNO calls.

I noticed XLE calls appear to be very cheap. For Jan ‘27 expiry with a strike of $65 (similar move for $XLE as $60 for BNO), you can get them for $2.20.

I get that BNO benefits from the roll yield and that current circumstances could cause a price spike in Crude which doesn’t translate to a price spike for the producers.. but given XLE calls seem to me to be priced quite a bit cheaper than BNO calls, I was wondering what your opinion on adding those to the shopping basket would be?

HFI Research's avatar

Difficult to assume producers will start rallying before oil does. BNO benefits from backwardation, so there’s a compounding effect here.