Oh no, Gartman says $15 oil??? $15 oil? Last time he thought back in October that the s$p and the rest of the markets were going into a bear market correction, he got that really wrong, now here he is predicting $15 oil??? I mean Im bearish on somethings but to believe $15 oil is coming, hmmmm, I don't think so. If thats the case then this global economy is really big trouble.
Speaking of this unexpected decline in oil that literally ZERO people predicted, is it possible the same could be said for stocks, if you asked anyone a year ago where oil would be trading on average in 2015 about 99.9% of people were saying 80-120 a barrel, we are well below that, we could have the same happen in the dow or s$p, no one is expecting a 25-40%% decline in stocks, that could happen just as fast as oil dropped from over $100 to under $45 a barrel in only 6 months....
Dennis Gartman has bad news for oil
(Intercontinental Exchange Europe: @WTCL20J-GB): It's going to go "stunningly" lower.
In an interview Thursday with CNBC.com's
"Futures Now," the Commodities King said that a combination of a rapidly rising inventories and a strong dollar could lead to $15 oil by the end of the year.
"For months I've said that crude oil is heading from the upper left to the lower right of the chart," said the CNBC contributor and editor and publisher of The Gartman Letter. "I wouldn't be surprised if oil went down to about $15 a barrel."
Crude oil prices have been in a steep and steady decline over the past six months, down more than 50 percent trading just above $40 a barrel. Traders had hoped an improving economic picture in both the U.S. and Europe could give crude a lift.
At the start of February, crude staged a sharp and violent rally off its lows. But according to Gartman, there simply is too much supply to contend with. As such, he expects future crude rallies to be met with a similar fate.
"That is not how a bull market is supposed to act," he said. "That is how a bear market acts."
Gartman said he's looking to the crude futures market for clues on when the selling may abate. Currently forward prices for crude contracts are higher than near-term or spot prices, a dynamic referred to as contango. Futures traders say this is typically a bearish sign as it reflects an excess near-term supply. As inventories build, storage could soon become a serious issue.
"We're going to have an abundance of crude. Storage is going to be topped out very soon and the front month spread is going to continue to deteriorate," he said.
Gartman says until nearer-dated crude contracts become more valuable than longer-dated ones, oil will continue to slide.
"No if, and, or but about it," said Gartman. "As [the contango] widens, your propensity, your urge, your intense and any [other] desire to be a buyer of crude will be deferred."
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/gartman-crude-could-hit-15-114809196.html