Trading crude oil on HoustonStreet.com is surprisingly similar to the way you trade today. Built by traders, for traders, HoustonStreet is designed to operate the way you think. On HoustonStreet you drive your own trades, with fingertip control over all bids, offers and negotiations. Leveraging the speed and efficiency of the Internet, HoustonStreet.com provides you with high performance trading floors featuring automatic price discovery and at-a-glance market depth. Take the Virtual Tour for a detailed overview of the Crude trading platform.

Crude

The Crude trading platform is designed specifically for trading U.S. domestic and Canadian grades of physical crude oil or their financially- settled derivatives, such as swaps.

HoustonStreet.com is the fastest way to trade crude oil. Select your market, tune your numbers and go. Hit bids, lift offers or sweep the entire market in an instant. It's a fast paced trading environment that allows you to react quickly to the market, secure in the knowledge that your anonymity is always protected and that you have total control over all your transactions.

The Crude trading platform was designed to facilitate immediate price discovery, quick transaction completion and above all, liquidity. On the trading floor, you have the crude market displayed in front of you. You can view grades, locations, delivery periods and price basis, with best-of-market bids and offers displayed side by side. Quickly make decisive market comparisons without the need to filter or search. Hit bids, lift offers, act on multiple markets, build on a trade and negotiate with any bid or offer. Easily create, modify, cancel or hold any or all of your positions.

The HoustonStreet Crude platform offers several special features which are designed to enhance your trading experience.

Crude Preferences allows you to customize your view of the trading floor to focus in on just the locations and grades you most frequently trade. Crude supports trading in locations including: St.James, Teppco Cushing, Guernsey, Empire, Houma, Clovelly, Teppco Midland, ExxonMobil Midland, Patoka, and Equilon Basin Pipeline. And these Canadian locations: Wood River, Guernsey Express, Mokena Enbridge. Grades traded on the floor include: HLS, LLS, Bonito Sour, Eugene Island, Poseidon, Mars, WTS, WTI, Foreign Sweet, Foreign Sour, Domestic Sweet, Hoover-Diana, and Wyoming Sweet. We also support Canadian grades including: Lloyd Blend, Lloyd Wainwright, Bow River, and Mixed Sweet. So with a click of the mouse, you can instantly switch from the LLS market to the WTS Market. Crude Preferences also allows you to adjust messaging and transaction handling to fit your personal trading style.

An FYI column tells you which bids and offers belong to you or your company, whether it's on hold, or whether it's negotiable.

The Global Messaging tab displays what's going on in your and other markets that may impact your trading strategy.

The My Bids/Offers section automatically keeps track of all the bids and offers you have posted, no matter which market they were posted in.

Any action made on your Bids and Offers by you or a counterparty is immediately displayed under your Personal Messaging tab. This allows you to easily track builds and negotiations.

The Transaction History screen displays every deal completed on the HoustonStreet Crude platform by you or your company and with the complete history of each trade.