"FV" has inched higher, estimated at 835.
We have seen how extreme SIFs can get from "FV", and yet this area once again feels like a value area.
Options expiration likely to keep trading in a range for a week, albeit the range may be pretty wide. Still, a break of 800 SPX imo will require "FV" to go really negative again, or a total surprise from data.
I couldn't sleep last night, so I stayed up and watched Bloomberg. Jim Rogers was being interviewed about the usual: oil, currencies, real estate, etc. I once called this man an idiot for saying that C was going to $5. In retrospect, it is clear who the idiot is. While I disagreed [once again] with much of what he said, I totally agree that the price of oil has to go much higher. Granted, it may not be for years, but anyone who has a long term horizon, say 10+ years on investments, should be lifting hand over fist companies like COP, SLB, XOM, etc. If you are a trader, you know how to trade contango vs backwardation, and how to change from oil futures to the equities oil sector, but for the investor with that kind of time frame, it is best to choose some simple investment plan, imo.
I know lots of people who payed for their houses and sent their kids to school on WAG. Oil stocks are the future WAG, imo.