Oil Rips Higher On Inventories
Tim Knight | May 10, 2017 11:17AM ET
The weekly inventory report came out and the substantial inventory draw sent prices ripping higher (as I write, the front month is up nearly 3%). This isn’t great for me, due to my focus on energy shorts, but I actually only have one position in my portfolio in the red, so it’s not too bad. I did trim my ERY long position by about 35%.
My view is that oil sort of flushed out the stops a few days ago (red circle) and is recovering from that. However, there is a massive wall of overhead supply (see red horizontal line) that I think will be a strong boundary to further upside.
In the short time I’ve been typing this, crude’s rise has faded to 2.75%, so maybe we’ve already seen today’s high.
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