Could a hurricane come that really spikes the price of Oil? Sure, but it is not a high enough probability event to let that influence your decisions immediately before, during and after a storm. There will likely be factors to be weighed in the aftermath that would influence your decision.
Right now Oil is still in the "shoulder period". Technically, the chart looks terrible. The OECD economies are contracting and the sense is that demand for Oil will contract driving money out of the futures markets.
This could go on for a time - BUT AT ANY TIME CAN REVERSE, HARD.
You and I will NEVER get the moment exactly correct (unless you get extremely lucky and then NEVER count on that again - you will have used up your once in a life "Lucky Trade" (I already used mine).
The reverse will likely come before the end of 2008. From what price? I don't know, so wait. There are few better feelings with your clothes on than sitting in cash and side stepping a colossal sell off. And this feeling lasts longer than 8 seconds and won't get you into a lifetime of trouble.
All of my work tells me that a significant import shortage WILL hit the U.S. in the next 36 months. That does not mean that it will be tomorrow, and it does not mean it WON'T be tomorrow. Remember, the market is always right, and that you must never delude yourself into thinking that commodity speculating is investing. It isn't. Until that import decline seers itself onto the markets collective thinking the Oil market can continue to decline.
Still, under no circumstance would I go short. The reversal will come and it will likely be brutal.
Yours for a better world,
Mentatt (at) yahoo (d0t) com
2 comments:
There are two possible reasons for a reversal; higher demand for oil, or a collapsing dollar. I think both are sure bets, but timing.....?
There's only one reason oil will fall mediumterm - worldwide demand destruction beyond anything we've ever seen in our lifetimes. It would have to be destruction beyond the falloff in the oil available to market. Hard to imagine.
So I STILL say $200 oil by Xmas!
Donal:
There is a third reason Oil can continue to fall. Money coming out of the futures market, and that appears to be happening at the moment. It could reverse at any time.
For my money... I don't get in front of freight trains. I either get on them, or I get the hell out of the way. This one... I am getting out of the way.
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