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One of the biggest headlines in investment markets today is oil – its current price, what it means, how it will affect the economy and most importantly, where the next profit opportunity is! Crude oil (CL1) has dropped from its dizzying high of $140 per barrel to a current $31.50 – a big enough move to make your nose bleed! This move is enormous, not simply from a price basis, but also in terms of the economic and trading opportunities it creates. The term “Once in a Generation” springs to mind, as it did 9 years ago, at the start of the Commodities boom super-cycle. What has caused this enormous shift and what does it mean from a money making perspective? With any price, it is a function of both supply and demand – where they meet (equilibrium, for the Economists) and that figure is $30.50 as I type. Much has been made of the slowdown in the Global economy. China’s stock market imploding, easing growth and the World is about to cave in. Reality is, while Chi...

I’m not sure about you, but nothing irritates me more than the doomsayers that jump on the bandwagon or pretty much any negative World event and use it as confirmation that the World economy is about to implode. The Brexit referendum (remember, a couple of weeks ago?) leaves the UK with a big question mark over its future – compounded by very weak leadership, but has had little impact on the overall equity markets and in particular, those in the US. The US has pushed up almost 5% from the late June low, hardly crumbling to 6000 points as predicted by some! In fact, even the Aussie market has managed to creep up, despite the post Australian election paralysis. And this leads me to my two points for this article. Firstly, after more than 2 decades of professional trading , I am very comfortable with the fact that I gave up on trying to predict and forecast, let me see now – yep more than 2 decades ago! You see, to make money, you need to respond to what is goin...

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