by pup55 » Thu 22 May 2008, 09:23:27
We haven't checked on Phil in a day or two: $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')e're long June crude from apprx 12100 - raise stop to 12500! It last trading day so take profits on your June Crude!!!! And look to July to sell July crude at 12900 - stop 13300.
Buy July heating oil at 345 - stop 340.
Sell July RBOB at 32750 - stop 33050.
Stopped on long June natural gas from apprx 1100 at apprx 1070.
Buy July natural gas at 1050 - stop 1030.
We know that Phil was not long from 121, so that is a non-trade. Where he got long on NG at 1100 is also beyond me, so that is also a non-trade.
The July RBOB is about 3.41 now, so that one is in no danger of being filled, nor is the HO trade at 345, now that it is up around $4.00 this morning.
Phil wants to go short on crude oil at 129, and has set a 4-cent limit on the trade, which means he wants you to risk losing $4000 assuming the price spikes down that low for a bit.
So Phil's running total is what it was the other day until he posts some trades that actually make sense with what is going on in the market.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')ut what should matter and what will matter eventually is the fact that US oil imports are on a downward slope. Today’s Financial Times screams that the US begins to break (its) foreign oil addiction and that the US has seen its first significant cut in oil imports since the days of disco back in 1977. The Financial Times says that high prices, more efficient cars, and the use of ethanol, have led to this significant cut. The FT quotes my old buddy Guy Caruso as saying that the country’s foreign oil dependency is expected to fall from 60% to about 50% in 2015, before rising again slightly to 54% in 2030. Net imports into the US are expected to fall between now and 2030 ending what the FT says was an almost relentless 30 year rise in the use of foreign oil. It also says that the US decline is already becoming more visible with imports at 57.9% vs. 58.2% last year. I guess its no wonder why OPEC has been a little testy lately.