by Outcast_Searcher » Sun 05 Jul 2020, 11:44:16
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The oil price is still too low for SA and OPEC+. They are forced to continue the reductions.
WTF is this line you call MAP_Price? I see a price of $60 in the end of 2020.
I thought the MAP_Price was something around $19 at this date. Now the ETP crowd just change the data to fit their fucked-up theory to the reality??
You should be ashamed to put bullshit TA finance analysis as anything near to prove your point.
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Blatant BS indeed. You are about right re the projected ETP $19ish WTI price as of midyear, tita.
I kept the PDF for Shorty's "paper" he "published" through the (now defunct, re the site) "Hills Group" dated March 1, 2015, called version 2 for times I wanted to counter this sort of nonsense by ETP pundits and blatant history revisionists.
The price curve we (including shorty) commonly referred to was the pink (light magenta) 38% curve (it wasn't even a line) on page 34 in the "Theoretical Max Price per Year" chart. Eyeballing that curve on the chart, the prices are
$27 for the end of 2019, $13 for the end of 2020, and close to ZERO at the end of 2021, for WTI. Even with a bad economy and a threatened global depression from COVID-19, WTI has recoverd to about $40, and has averaged well above $35 since the beginning of June, reflecting much lower demand due to reduced travel from the virus -- now and anticipated.
Show of hands for how many think that would imply a price below $15 at yer-end due to the economy collapsing completely if there were no COVID-19 at all.
(And shorty can't predict ANYTHING, so he sure couldn't predict COVID-19 over 5 years ago, before the history revisionists try that). Oh, and along that line, his projected WTI price, based on the exponential curve he had drawn, extending a curve fitting from 1960, has WTI at about $200 at the end of 2020.

(Presumably, this line predicted the WTI price if supply / demand continues normally in a non-collapsed economy).
1). So if COVID-19 collapses the global economy completely in several years (due to all bad news and no way to get any herd immunity, which looks like a long shot, per the experts and vaccine expectations), shorty is dead wrong because it has NOTHING to do with what he projected re crude oil crushing the global economy due to being "unaffordable" to produce. He'd also be years late.
2). If it weren't for COVID-19, WTI would be humming along between perhaps $50 and $100, and the US and global economy would be doing at least OK, given how well the economy is doing overall, even WITH COVID-19, and how (despite the usual false doomer claims) it was doing just fine when COVID-19 struck, re the markets, GDP, travel, etc.
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.