The Lemon Fool

Can anyone point me to a reasonable proxy for the oil price on ADVFN? I don't need anything specialist but it's useful to keep an eye on the general levels and movements. I have a monitor list which helpfully can include a few share prices, a couple of indices (FTSE100, Dow DJI), and a couple of exchange rates which is a helpful "at a glance" idea of what's happening. If I search for "oil" I seem to get oil futures, which obviously reflect the situation, but also expire when their time is up. digitallook used to have an item for "Brent Crude" which seemed to be a good reflection of what was thought to be the "oil price".
TIA

I don't use advfn so can't help, but if available what is wrong with oil price "futures"? If it's anything like other providers you should be able to use tickers for "front contract". As the name suggests these won't expire but roll. Are they available on advfn?

yorkshirelad1 wrote:...digitallook used to have an item for "Brent Crude" which seemed to be a good reflection of what was thought to be the "oil price".

dealtn wrote:I don't use advfn so can't help, but if available what is wrong with oil price "futures"? .... Are they available on advfn?

Here: https://uk.advfn.com/commodities/brent-crude-oil

yorkshirelad1 wrote:Can anyone point me to a reasonable proxy for the oil price on ADVFN? I don't need anything specialist but it's useful to keep an eye on the general levels and movements. I have a monitor list which helpfully can include a few share prices, a couple of indices (FTSE100, Dow DJI), and a couple of exchange rates which is a helpful "at a glance" idea of what's happening. If I search for "oil" I seem to get oil futures, which obviously reflect the situation, but also expire when their time is up. digitallook used to have an item for "Brent Crude" which seemed to be a good reflection of what was thought to be the "oil price".
TIA

Hargreaves Lansdown have a page for Brent Crude price https://www.hl.co.uk/shares/trading-commodities/brent-crude-oil
Is that any use?

Adrian

Try https://uk.advfn.com/p.php?pid=commodities&fpselector=1 which has an up-to-date price for Brent Crude Futures and other commodities.

TJH

AJC5001 wrote:

yorkshirelad1 wrote:Can anyone point me to a reasonable proxy for the oil price on ADVFN? I don't need anything specialist but it's useful to keep an eye on the general levels and movements. I have a monitor list which helpfully can include a few share prices, a couple of indices (FTSE100, Dow DJI), and a couple of exchange rates which is a helpful "at a glance" idea of what's happening. If I search for "oil" I seem to get oil futures, which obviously reflect the situation, but also expire when their time is up. digitallook used to have an item for "Brent Crude" which seemed to be a good reflection of what was thought to be the "oil price".
TIA

Hargreaves Lansdown have a page for Brent Crude price https://www.hl.co.uk/shares/trading-commodities/brent-crude-oil
Is that any use?

Adrian

Very nice. Thank you.

Thanks for all the suggestions: the several answers have come together to produce a useful "solution".

Not on ADVFN but you may find this useful:
Futures Charts Daily
https://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=ALL&p=d1