mate oil does not need any news to rally. I remember about a year back, oil rallied $2-$3 dollars on news that wife of a manager of crude oil rig was kidnapped by nigerian militants. Now you imagine!
When the market players want to move the market, they can create any reason. Most probably this time they will cite the obama presidential oath and potential improvement in economy etc.....or maybe short covering.......
Moral of the story is to not rely on news. Think hard and deep and put yourself in place of big players and play like you wanna wipe out small traders
dante is saying this is just cos of the offical real rollerove ris todaynot last friday when ig did it,
and so everyone who was short feb is now buying it back and thats what caused this.
However last 3months i was banking on this (as i saw it back in july n august as we came down the 100s...)
how stupid lazy idiot do you have to be though to leave your trade running so late in the month before cashing in,
when you know theres a chance this could happen!!