This investment method is often only used by large institutions. For example, when crude oil is low and expected to be bullish, large foreign institutions often rent supertankers to hoard crude oil and wait for the price to rise and sell it. For example, during the economic crisis in 2008, when the price of crude oil was the cheapest, large overseas financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, AIG and other institutions, rented a large number of supertankers to hoard crude oil and then made a lot of money.

The second type: futures investment.

This investment method can also be adopted by ordinary investors, mainly for direct futures trading. Advantages are leverage, long position and short position, flexible operation and good liquidity. The disadvantage is that the risk is huge, the amount of funds is used more, and investors need to have enough experience. At present, if you use this trading method, of course, if you have an overseas operating platform, you can also operate freely. All crude oil futures launched by domestic Bohai trading can also participate appropriately.

The third type: futures indexed investment.

The main purpose of this kind of investment is to try to track the price of crude oil futures at low risk through indexed investment. For commodities, the best tracking object is yourself, and spot and futures are the best objects. However, due to the huge amount of funds occupied by spot and high risk of futures, it is difficult for ordinary investors to adopt it. Indexing investment futures is a method that is more easily adopted by ordinary investors. Indexing is actually very simple, that is, by creating an index and buying and selling futures contracts according to certain rules, the index can track the futures price of crude oil as much as possible.