So normally mid September the prices of heating oil slide lower and lower, tourist season is over, diesel and heating oil demand gets lower and lower and the price usually eases down into the middle of october. I buy my heating oil for the year in one shot, I built my snazzy mini tank farm so I can actually hold about 2 years worth of oil if needed. The market had a big jump in September and the price of oil shot up 20 or 30 cents a gallon right when I was looking at buying.

I'll wait a few more weeks, prices are slowly falling at the moment. hopefully I can save another 10 cens a gallon or more, do my usual 5-600 gallon buy and paid in advance to get all the bulk discounts. Commodities markets are a strange thing.