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fibonelly - The type you mentioned as No. (2) is called an ETN, not an ETF, This is actually the main difference between them. I already know all you wrote, I'm still looking for answers to my questions, but thanks for your reply!

(1) When we trade options on an ETF (the QQQQ for example)- do these options give us the right to buy/sell the ETF? or the underlying itself (the stocks for example)? (2) If the publisher of an ETF has collapsed, the ETF will probably go down to zero while the underlying can stay at a high...

That's right. the Brent fufure expires tomorrow and the Crude in 6 days (on the 20th). The March futures spread is "only" 3.5 $. Thanks for the quick answer ! I still wonder why in the last month the Brent is always above the Crude, and in a quite big spread...

Right now the difference between the prices of Crude Oil futures of NYMEX to the Brent Oil of the ICE exchange is about 8$!!! This is very uncommon, most of the time the two futures are quite correlative and the spread is small. Does anybody know the reason to the huge spread between them in...