As companies adopt increasingly sophisticated ways to reach customers or identify trends, they are getting super-sleuthishly good at coming up with predictive indicators. I’ve come across a couple of somewhat wacky ones in the last week, and I thought I would share them (especially as regular readers already know that quirky indicators are the way forward), and show how they coaxed me back to considering a current conundrum in Commodityworld™.
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Feb 23 2012 @ 10:48am by Matt Smith in Crude Oil, Economy, Global Energy, risk management
From Target to Twitter to Tanks
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Feb 15 2012 @ 9:57pm by Matt Smith in Blog, Crude Oil, Economy, Global Energy, Natural Gas, Risk Strategy, risk management
Something Borrowed, Something Knew
Speaking at a conference has a number of benefits; it makes you research the pants off the topic you are speaking about, you get to meet random yet fascinating people, and you get to hear about topics that are not necessarily directly relevant, but interesting. So reviewing my notes from last week’s AMM conference I thought it would be useful to share some of the random facts I was presented with, and that I presented. So henceforth here is a collection of something borrowed, and something knew:
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Jan 12 2012 @ 10:55am by Matt Smith in Natural Gas, risk management
In a Galaxy Not So Far, Far Away…
Recently I’ve been sounding like a broken record as I keep referencing how natural gas prices are re-enacting a certain scene from Star Wars.
It’s the one where the Millennium Falcon is being inextricably pulled towards the Death Star by a tractor beam…except in naturalgasworld™, natty is the Millennium Falcon and the Death Star is below the $3 mark. With me so far? Good, good. The analogies, however, do not end there. There is a number of themes which flow through natural gas like the force…and here are but a few. » read more
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Jan 6 2012 @ 10:55am by Matt Smith in Crude Oil, Global Energy, Natural Gas, risk management
America is Great, Energy-related and Otherwise
I have tirelessly spent the last week or so trying not to write a post which either a) reflects on last year or b) provides some sort of outlook for 2012. This has left me considering the here and now, and the USA.
Swinging the spotlight back onto energy (as is inevitable here on the burrito), I realized there is a lot to be thankful for in the US. Despite some obvious shortfalls in the energy landscape (reliance on fossil fuels, foreign energy dependence, etc) I believe the US is moving in the right direction. So henceforth I present some random points as to why the US is great, from both an energy perspective, and from the perspective of a Brit.
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Dec 1 2011 @ 10:58am by Matt Smith in Global Energy, Random, risk management
Energy-related Christmas Gifts
Yep, it’s that time of the year to desperately hunt for what to get Auntie Maude or Uncle Fred for Christmas. But search no longer, my friends. Here is a collection of energy-related gifts I am sure they would be thrilled to receive: » read more
