Many analysts expect oil demand to return to pre-pandemic levels, but inventories and spare capacity remain low. Some traders are again betting that crude would top $100 a barrel by summer.

Oil prices have been rising since the beginning of 2022. Brent crude and U.S. West Texas Intermediate have touched their highest prices since late November. To come to a decision about parking money in oil, let’s discuss what's triggering the rally.

The wild fluctuations in WTI have had more to do with the belief that prices reflect supply/demand daily than the actual supply/demand.

By investing in an ETF, beginner and intermediate investors don’t have to learn how to buy futures or other derivative contracts.

Commodity demand reflected in futures—and ETF—prices.

A contango should be a wake-up call.

Oil’s been a good trade so far, as evidenced by the outperformance of the futures-tracking USO and USL portfolios, but oil refiners – proxied by the VanEck Vectors Oil Refiners ETF (CRAK) – has done even better.

How you buy oil is just as important as when you buy.

Oil prices may be headed higher over the next six months. There are many reasons to be bearish in Q3, so expect volatility along the way.

Gold/oil metric headed back to a “normal” range. Things are neutral in the mid term, though still bullish going out further. With that kind of an outlook, I wouldn’t be a buyer. Not yet.

In recent days, there has been a great deal of discussion about the possibility that electric vehicle [EV] sales will produce a new oil crash. A series of reports by Bloomberg are at the center of this controversy.

For the long term, it’s more likely a time to buy oil, or oil proxies like the U.S. 12-Month Oil Fund (NYSE Arca: USL), rather than gold.

Oil ETFs poised for further gains.

Securities, barring safe havens, were not in a party mood this New Year. And for already-demoralized oil, the year unfolded on a scarier note. Brent crude plunged to an 11-year low of sub-$35 a barrel crossing its late-December decline on Jan. 6.

Today’s oil glut could produce tomorrow’s profit.

The price of oil and of gold are daily fodder for the financial media. Lately, minute-by-minute fluctuations in the value of the commodities have been followed breathlessly by pundits and punters, looking for either prophesy or profit.