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Oil & Stocks: When One Rises, The Other One Falls?

Vadim Pokhlebkin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:15:00 ET

Crude oil is trading above $70 again. When oil starts to make big moves, hardly a day goes by without someone saying something like “crude up -- stocks down,” or vice versa. Take a look at these charts, though, before you agree with this mainstream opinion.

Crude Oil Opportunity: Come On In, the Water's Fine

Nico Isaac — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:15:00 ET

According to the financial mainstream, fundamentals are to markets what the moon is to the ocean's tides: Negative data drive prices down and ebbing out; while positive data draw them up and advancing in. Here's the problem: Tides don't regularly shrug-off or ignore the lunar pull. If they did, no one in their right mind would ever go swimming in such unpredictable waters...

Crude Oil: Is the Bull Market In Black Gold Back?

Nico Isaac — Fri, 22 May 2009 05:30:00 ET

Over the last year, the fundamental experts have changed the "rules" of the game regarding Crude Oil quite often. Back in 2008, as prices rallied to never before seen heights, they delegated black gold to official "Safe Haven" duty. After oil took a flying leap DOWN from their mid-2008 peak, the experts renamed the game: Oil, once the VICTOR of recession, was now its greatest VICTIM.

Oil Prices Do NOT Play by the Stock Market's Rules

Nico Isaac — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:15:00 ET

On Monday April 20, two main events took top billing in the financial press: the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 290 points. And, oil prices suffered their biggest-single day drop in over three months. According to the mainstream experts, the first event was directly related to the second. One look at our chart and you'll see why this notion is not true.

Is The Bottom In For Falling Oil Prices? Find Out NOW

Nico Isaac — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:45:00 ET

Over the last year, crude oil has thrown the mainstream energy experts for more loops than a knitting needle. One huge whopper of a loop: the severe 70%-plus freefall in oil prices from the July 2008 high to a recent five-year low...

Crude Oil: From Victor -- to -- Victim of Recession?

Nico Isaac — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:45:00 ET

Back in mid-2008, with crude oil prices setting an all-time record high above $100 per barrel, Main Street said: an economic slump would continue to pump UP oil. NOW, with crude prices at a five-year low, those same experts blame the global economic recession for the market's woes. Any questions?

Is the Bottom In For Crude Oil?

Nico Isaac — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:45:00 ET

On January 19, 2009, Morgan Stanley joined a rapidly growing fleet of big-name banks that have traded mortgage loans for oil liners. Idea being: Buy in bulk now, while oil prices stand at a five-year low, AND sell later this year, when a supposed "perfect storm" of fundamentals reignites a bull run in crude.

Crude Oil: A Gusher Of An Opportunity (UPDATE)

Nico Isaac — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:15:00 ET

One day, crude oil prices suffer their biggest weekly loss in energy trading history. The next day, crude oil prices soar to their highest level in nearly two weeks. All the while, the global economic slump continued to grow. Any questions?

Stocks & Crude: A "Rare" Alignment?

Nico Isaac — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:30:00 ET

According to the mainstream experts, the joined status of stocks and crude (to the downside) is as rare an event as Hallye's Comet. A myth-busting chart of the 52-week correlation between oil and stocks since 1996 strongly DISAGREES...

Crude Oil Prices: About To Cross A Line

Nico Isaac — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:15:00 ET

Fact: When crude oil prices were rocketing to never-before-seen heights back in July 2008, the mainstream pundits saw no end to the red-hot winning streak in black gold. Find out how our analysts saw the oil market cross the "line in the sand" from bull-to-bear beforehand...