You Can't Control Oil Prices, but You Can Control What You Do About Them
Oil and natural gas markets are anything but boring. For investors, they can be downright exciting at times, both to the upside and to the downside. It's the nature of the business and some level of volatility is inevitable. As an investor, if you recognize this truism and accept it, you can position your portfolio to manage it.
Here are some ways you can do that.
The chart below shows the price of a barrel of Brent crude -- a key global oil benchmark -- over the past decade. It's fallen below $20 per barrel and topped $120 per barrel, moving up and down a lot within that range. Natural gas is just as volatile.
Source Fool.com
