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Point taken, I am not married to the term "artificial" just could not think of what else to call it.

Artificial demand means they do not want to consume the commodity, they believe commodities are an asset class, as index trackers they need to buy as money comes into their funds. If Oil is going up they and they have a lot of cash flowing into their fund, they have to buy, basically they are...

Personally I think these index funds are creating artificial demand. But then they will create artificial supply when Oil drops and people ask for their money back. Problem is that the damage to the world economy will have been done. By the same token the damage to the Oil market will have...

I've said it before and I'll say it again. These Guys can't trade all they can do is sell gamma using other peoples money while it works look we are heroes when it goes pear shaped sorry but thanks for the two and twenty or bonus.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121210611821931167.html?mod=hps_us_whats_news Point is not if its speculators. Its long term buy and hold investors who are doing the damage.

Thats quite an article!

"What’s been happening since 2004 is very high prices without record-low [oil] stocks. The relationship between U.S. [oil] inventory levels and prices has been shredded and become irrelevant." — Jan Stuart, Global Oil Economist, UBS Securities...

BuyLowSellHi asked if anyone could refute the numbers I take it they can't?

I watch Platinum closely, last year a etf was set up. The big major platinum producers refused to sell to it. In fact the two biggest mines have long term contracts to sell their output. At the time I thought they(the mines) were wusses, they argued that an etf was bad for the market. I am...

If that seekingalpha article is right. This will end badly. I wasn't around when the hunt brothers did their thing on silver but one at least went to jail.

Why don't they put the program up on the net and we can input the data ourselves and see what rating we get? :D

Classic stuff:D

Actually its something called the central limit theorem, if you add up enough random kicks, you will always get a normal distribution (This is of course subject to the assumption that the kicks are drawn from distributions with a finite variance). But as far as anyone can tell markets follow a...

I am just waiting for "This time its different" and therefore Oil can go to the moon.

Personally I think there aren't that many traders in the market. I don't mean people who take 2000 USD and blow it. I mean serious professional traders, Joe Public is completely brain washed into believing that if he invests his own money he will lose, hence the 95% myth. This perception...

Its very simple follow the money, if an analyst could actually claim to do what they claim, why would he/she tell everybody, they would be out there running their very own Berkshires

How can his thesis not be available? Are they running a banana university at NYU I have never heard of such a thing. Its bad for their reputation and all there alumni

Is that the same Blodget of dot.com fame?

Exactly, just tells me that volatility is high.