Quote from coolshades:
spanish, a few weeks/months back werent you saying you saw oil prices going down on the whole? curious why you think we are now nearing the bottom.
Aloha, yeah i was selling oil from all the spikes after 138 t 146,
and sold it all the way down to the mid/high 70s.
But from there to the low 40s i simply intraday/week range traded it.
And now its in the mid 30s itd be ridiculous and extremely dangerous to be selling it at all!
Since if you sell it here what is your target??

lol
Mid 20s?? $16s per barrel?? The arabs just pumping the oil out the ground and then giving it away for free??
In reality since June there has been maximum 15% drop in the amount of oil people have been buying since they ''NEED IT''!
Not WANT it, they NEED it.
And that average 15% drop was nothing to do with banks giving out ''fewer loans to people''!! lol
Since how many people routinely go out and fill in a creditcard or loan application, got the loan, and then went out and spend it on their petrol???!! :eek:
fractions of a % probs.
So the ''tightening of creditcards and loans'' has actually done extremely little 'directly' to businesses,
but the media, government and public are blaming all the problems of the last 10years on it!! LOL
Ive been down the kebab shop and customers have been saying to them that they are eating less food now 'alledgedly because they cant get loans now''!
They just say ''we dont come here much cos the *credit crunch*'', same as they kebab shop people say ''we make less cos the *credit crunch*'',
I just stand there thinking to myself how ive ended up living on a planet thats full of complete idiots who's brains seem to just no longer function!! HAHA
The ''credit cunch'' has now just become a fucking slogan that every single person in the world is using to blame every single thing on!
Most people havent even got a clue what actually happened in the libor and creditmarkets!!
The only reason that this has caused so much impact on stuff is because on the media!!
They were the 1s who came up with all these slogans,
and so traders all acted according to the media, and the public just believe whatever the media say.
While the word ''crunch'' may sound like a really cool great catchy sorta word to use, and so thats why its become a noun now,
imagine if instead of the term 'cedit crunch', the only phrase that the media had used was ''theres been less loans given out to people by banks recently'',
there would basically have been muted impact on the public.
Since why should anyone even need to have loans in daily life??
You earn your cash, you use that cash to buy stuff, end of story.
The only drop in demmand was caused by the high prices at that time.
Since when oil was at 135 airlines couldnt make much money as profit, and so they had to raise prices for customers, and fly less flights to be using less fuel.
And drivers couldnt afford to live and drive normally with that price, so they would take trains and buses instead of cars lots more.
As all countries had to pay this same high price this happended globaly, and so the amount of oil needed fell about 15%.
However the price has fallen nearly 80%!!!!
So its not hard to see that this price crash is EXTREMELY OVER DONE AND MUCH MUCH BIGGER than the actual real % amount for the drop in demand for oil.
The futures are already showing this as if you want to buy oil for a few months to a few years ahead now,
you are still gna have to pay $100+.
And this is because everyone out there knows that oil price cant and wont stay this low for long,
as so its not a question of ''if'' it will rise again, since everyone knows for a fact it will.
So its simply a question of how high will it go, and at what angle + speed will it rise.