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What a great article!!! will be reading it over the years over and over again !!!

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As a day trader of Futures contracts I remember that day and being amazed it could even happen. Thanks for writing the story behind what happened that day.

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Nice article on the inner workings of this trade!

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Ive often wondered how crude went negative. Thanks for the great explanation.

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Question: tell me how many K20 CL futures contracts did Chinese retail ETP carry into session on 4/20 ? And how did its respective clearing bank/FCM not already closed out this Spec class position ? USO fund et al ,by comparison, had liquidated/rolled the prior week as per CME regs.

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