To: Toddsterpatriot
And like I said, Southwest does not take delivery of the oil contracts they buy.
Wellllll ..... they will buy a product that comes from the oil (i.e., jet fuel), so they're sort-of using the oil futures contract as proxy protection - since there's no direct futures contracts avaiable for jet fuel.
It's not like they're betting on something totally unrelated to their core business, such as pork bellies, sugar, etc.
To: canuck_conservative
Wellllll ..... they will buy a product that comes from the oil (i.e., jet fuel), so they're sort-of using the oil futures contract as proxy protectionSo it's okay for them? What about me? Can I buy an oil contract because I'll use gasoline?
75 posted on
07/13/2009 4:45:30 PM PDT by
Toddsterpatriot
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