Don't Slip on Oil 🛢

It hardly ever pays to follow the herd... [Shield] AN OXFORD CLUB PUBLICATION [Wealthy Retirement]( [View in browser]( SPONSORED [America's Most Reclusive Billionaire Has a Weird Plan...]( And it could hold the key to a $30 trillion stock market windfall. New York Magazine reports that this billionaire's business has "always operated in stealth mode, keen to protect its secret formulas." Yet for three decades he's been one step ahead of many of America's biggest moneymaking trends - amassing an incredible fortune for himself and those closest to him. And now he's staking millions on an extraordinary new breakthrough. [Full details here.]( [MARKET TRENDS]( [Contrarian No More: Gas and Oil Have Gone Mainstream]( [Jody Chudley, Contributing Analyst, The Oxford Club]( [Jody Chudley]( In November 2020, I introduced you to a "[once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunity]( I wasn't referring to a specific stock. I was referring to the entire oil and gas sector. There's no disputing the fact that my call was highly contrarian. In November 2020, nobody wanted to own oil and gas stocks. The consensus opinion at the time was that the oil and gas sector had entered into a gradual terminal decline. Renewables were the future. Hydrocarbons were finished. I had a different opinion, and it was based partly on the well-articulated investment thesis laid out by investment manager and co-founder of Horizon Kinetics Murray Stahl. Here are the main points behind his bullish call... - Oil and gas companies across the globe had slashed investments in new wells at an incredible rate. Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) and Chevron (NYSE: CVX), for example, spent 70% less on drilling wells from 2020 to 2021 than they did in 2014. That reduced spending will soon take a toll on production. - Investors underestimate the amount of money required to build out renewable energy infrastructure across the globe. Demand for oil will remain strong. - Stahl is convinced that the transition to renewables will be much harder to accomplish than most people think. Even in the most bullish cases for the future of renewable energy growth, we will still need a huge amount of oil and gas to help meet the world's growing need for energy. Long before Russia invaded Ukraine, the oil and gas sector was an investment opportunity of a lifetime. Just as well, the recent surge in oil prices from the war has supercharged my call. [Chart: Energy Stocks Have Outperformed Sevenfold]( Since November 2020, the energy sector has increased more than 127% and smashed the 18% increase in the S&P 500 over the same time frame. That's outperformance of seven times! SPONSORED [[MUST SEE] A 6,372,900% Gain... in ONE Decade]( [Man Holding Bitcoin on Rocket]( You watched it rocket up by 6.3 MILLION percent in a decade. You saw it create 100,000 new millionaires. 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U.S. President Joe Biden just announced that the United States would reject Russian oil. Other countries' leaders are doing the same. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin is threatening that the world is going to see economies everywhere decimated by $300 per barrel oil. Everyone knows of this breaking news. Oil and gas stocks have already had an incredible 15-month run. [Cenovus Energy]( (NYSE: CVE), which I called out as being incredibly cheap in October 2021, is already up more than 50% since then in what is now a down market. [Chart: Total Return of Our Cenovus Trade vs. the S&P 500]( This sector has been a phenomenal trade. And again, our big win on Cenovus and the oil and gas sector was because we were buying in advance of oil prices rising. The point that I'm getting at here is that oil and gas is now the opposite of a contrarian opportunity. It's a mainstream story. Everyone and their mother want to get exposure to oil and gas now that commodity prices are high and threatening to go higher. This is a huge red flag against aggressively buying oil and gas stocks right now... Just as it was in 2008, when oil spiked to more than $130 for a brief moment. Investors jumping on the oil bandwagon in the summer of 2008 bought at the worst possible moment. By February 2009, oil had dived to $39. I'm not making a claim as to whether oil prices are going to stay high for a while or rise higher. What happens in Ukraine is going to be the primary determinant of that. Getting aggressive with exposure to the oil and gas sector AFTER oil prices have already spiked has not historically been a winning strategy. Don't make that mistake. 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