Crude Volatility

Featuring Elliott’s BP/TotalEnergies trade and first crude perspectives on volatility.

One of my favourite undergraduate lecture memories is from a first-year Operations Research (OR) course, an introduction to Linear and Integer Programming. A passionate presentation of an Excel-Solver routine for Linear Programming ended with the lecturer exclaiming “…the more you know, the more you will know that you don’t know!”

There’s always a risk of getting stuck with the things you know. Laziness develops its own attractive force. Sometimes it masquerades as busyness. I miss the feeling of just reading for long stretches at a time, simply for the analogue and direct experience of other worlds. Perhaps you do too?

I was reflecting on the end of my LLM-project last year. One of the courses I ‘audited’ (sat in on without credit) was Oil & Gas Law taught by