Making a Bad Call on Buying Oil

The price of crude oil plummeted in overnight trading after an apparent breakdown of the OPEC+ alliance, which has ostensibly sparked an all-out price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia. The price of crude oil plummeted in overnight trading after an apparent breakdown of the OPEC+ alliance, which has ostensibly sparked an all-out price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia. [Energy and Capital logo] Making a Bad Call on Buying Oil [Luke Burgess Photo] By [Luke Burgess]( Written Mar. 09, 2020 I was planning on sending out an article today talking about investing in precious gemstones — red diamonds, padparadscha sapphires, Burmese rubies, old mine emeralds, and the like. But a precipitous drop in oil prices last night demands that I address a bad buy call on crude last Friday. The price of crude oil plummeted in overnight trading after an apparent breakdown of the OPEC+ alliance, which has ostensibly sparked an all-out price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia. 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Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Friday, “As from 1 April we are starting to work without minding the quotas, or reductions which were in place earlier but this does not mean that each country would not monitor and analyze market developments.” So in retaliation, Saudi Arabia slashed its crude prices for buyers by nearly 10% over the weekend, in what everyone is calling the beginning of an oil price war between Riyadh and Moscow, which would no doubt have deep economic and geopolitical implications. Saudi Arabia's price cut added to an already uncertain global market roiled by coronavirus fears. Australian stocks plunged 7.3% in overnight trading while Japan's Nikkei fell by over 5%. Meanwhile, U.S. futures reacted, triggering stop limits for the S&P 500. Meanwhile, yours truly called oil a “screaming buy” on Friday… [picardfacepalm] I'm not going to try to defend my very poorly timed call too much. Of course, I could blame the Saudis or the Russians for making moves that no one could have predicted. But instead, I'll own the mistake: I was wrong… very, very wrong. Thing is, no matter who you are, no matter how long you've been doing something, and no matter how good you are at it, everyone makes mistakes in their professional career. Everyone makes bad calls. And every investor loses money from time to time. Show me the investor who says he's never lost any money, and I'll show you a liar. This job — analyzing and writing publicly about financial markets — is very much like being a weather forecaster: Everyone remembers the bad forecasts. And people love to call you out when you're wrong. This is exasperated when you're a person like me who likes to gloat (albeit jokingly) when they're right. Why are three of Forbes’ top 10 richest billionaires loading up on THIS investment? Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Michael Bloomberg aren’t usually wrong about these things. They know [this one investment is set to TRIPLE]( in the coming months. Once it starts making its move, it’s set to shoot skyward at lightning-bolt speed. But it’s still flying under Wall Street’s radar. If you act quickly, you can still grab it at what will be considered a once-in-a-lifetime bargain price. [Find out what it is right here.]( The harder you pound your chest when you're right, the harder people will attack you when you're wrong. And sooner or later, you will be wrong. That's just the nature of the beast. I've already been hit with a barrage of personal messages calling me out. The best so far came in an in-house Slack message: [slack3/20] The fact is, folks you win some and you lose some — hopefully more of the former than the latter. And I have plenty of winning calls to make up for this single bad one. I'll leave you today with what I believe to be a very apt quote from the immortal Theodore Roosevelt wrote: "The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything." Until next time, [Luke Burgess Signature] Luke Burgess As an editor at Energy and Capital, Luke’s analysis and market research reach hundreds of thousands of investors every day. Luke is also a contributing editor of Angel Publishing’s Bull and Bust Report newsletter. There, he helps investors in leveraging the future supply-demand imbalance that he believes could be key to a cyclical upswing in the hard asset markets. For more on Luke, go to his [editor’s page](. Enjoy reading this article? [Click here]( to like it and receive similar articles to read! 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