This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.

Crude Snaps Below $40 : Gartman Stopped Out Of Oil Long

Tyler Durden's picture




 

It was inevitable.

As we reported first on Friday, the best contrarian indicator the market has ever known, perhaps even better than the legendary FX titan, Tom Stolper, Dennis Gartman recommended clients invest their monopoly money alongside his, in a short gold, long crude trade: one which has lost about 5%on both legs in 24 hours. To wit:

CRUDE OIL PRICES ARE LOWER BUT WE ARE CHANGING OUR VIEW ON PRICES for having been overtly and rather relentlessly… and very publically… bearish, we are this morning turning bullish of crude oil and we are turning so because the term structure shifts mandate that we do so.... We do not make this statement lightly for this is a material shift in our view of the energy market… a very material shift.

 

* * *

 

Amidst the carnage of the global stock markets this morning and even in light of the sustained bear market in crude oil, the narrowing of the contangos in Brent and WTI brings us to become a buyer of crude as noted at length above. We’ll buy a unit of crude oil, split between Brent and WTI, upon receipt of this commentary. We shall, for the moment, give these prices the latitude to move 3% against us, hoping that we can tighten that up when we  return Monday.

Moments ago, the $40 support level for oil finally snapped... 

... and with its so did Gartman's oil stop loss level, which means Gartman is now stopped out.

Normally this would mean going long, however in this case China has yet to open and following the disappointment of no RRR-cut, tonight's commodity carnage may just be beginning.

 

- advertisements -

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.
Sun, 08/23/2015 - 21:03 | 6459865 AlaricBalth
Sun, 08/23/2015 - 21:06 | 6459877 SuperVinci
SuperVinci's picture

no clinton, no bush

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 21:51 | 6460032 Publicus
Publicus's picture

The Earth ramps up abiotic oil production in response to human demand. We will never run out of oil.

Bonus: another portion of the energy the earth receives is converted directly to mass, expanding the size of the earth and increases the strength of earth's gravity leading to smaller animals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kL7qDeI05U

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 21:54 | 6460063 SumTing Wong
SumTing Wong's picture

It's a zero sum game. Let's all take Gartman's money from him...every day. And we don't even have to threaten to punch him if he doesn't give up his lunch money. We just have to take the other side of the trade...always.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 02:00 | 6460902 Haus-Targaryen
Haus-Targaryen's picture

Are all the bank still solvent?  

Yes.... yes....

???

Nothing to see here.  

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 04:54 | 6461042 buzzkillb
buzzkillb's picture

If it wasn't this site back in '08 it was another similar one. Somewhere in there, Obama made BofA not allowed to go under. Anyone with better search skills able to find what I am talking about? I only remember it so well as I withdrew my money and closed my BofA account that week. #stringthemup

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 22:00 | 6460082 cougar_w
cougar_w's picture

Nigga you still cray.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 22:15 | 6460150 Apply Force
Apply Force's picture

Pub - abiotic oil for 7b - um, no.  Agreed with the expando-earth theory, but please link the original clip (nealadamsdotcom).

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOW3e4Kxx02XQ-ZpF8T1Cuw

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 22:15 | 6460154 Bilderberg Member
Bilderberg Member's picture

So there's not a "Plunge Protection Team" for the tens of thousands of jobs tied to the oil industry, just wall street??

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 22:22 | 6460191 Bangin7GramRocks
Bangin7GramRocks's picture

It's was rigged artificially high for 8 years. Wipe your crocodile tears and wake the fuck up!

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 21:03 | 6459867 greenskeeper carl
greenskeeper carl's picture

How does this guy have any clients left?

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 21:24 | 6459931 Normalcy Bias
Normalcy Bias's picture

I think his 'clients' are the MSM.

It's hard to believe there's an even better contrarian fade than Jim Crater...

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 21:05 | 6459875 jldpc
jldpc's picture

copper being jammed down; oil down, gold and silver down - raising money for called in loans in asia

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 21:20 | 6459908 cougar_w
cougar_w's picture

Death by leverage.

Watch this crazy bitch come unwound now. Forever is gonna eat us alive.

I mean it. Eaten alive. She's sitting right here and leaned over and said, coog you watch this imma eat these mo'fos alive my nigga.

Christ she's crazy. I think she's gonna do it.

Oh great she took my ice cream.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 22:18 | 6460167 Apply Force
Apply Force's picture

Ha ha - sounds like it's right out of The Dark Tower series...

"I mean it. Eaten alive. She's sitting right here and leaned over and said, coog you watch this imma eat these mo'fos alive my nigga."

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 23:57 | 6460610 cougar_w
cougar_w's picture

I should do a series of us getting through a day without killing each other or bringing down a SWAT raid.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 21:17 | 6459916 lasvegaspersona
lasvegaspersona's picture

In 13 minutes China opens and if it opens down big then Wall Street will need a blood sponge for the morning.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 21:26 | 6459943 KnuckleDragger-X
KnuckleDragger-X's picture

Japan is already in the fun zone, so China should be interesting in a disaster kind of way....

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 21:48 | 6460033 cougar_w
cougar_w's picture

I don't think I'm ready for so much fun.

Hold on I have a little bit of rum left. Looks like I'll be fine.

Okay light it ...

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 22:54 | 6460345 Jack Burton
Jack Burton's picture

CNN said tomorrow is a buying opportunity.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 05:02 | 6461044 buzzkillb
buzzkillb's picture

Were they being specific what to buy? Plenty of great things to buy this upcoming week. Just not sure how much of the general public understands what those are or what's going on.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 21:18 | 6459919 Caviar Emptor
Caviar Emptor's picture

Biflation bites

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 21:20 | 6459920 Beorn
Beorn's picture

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 21:21 | 6459921 Crabshacker
Crabshacker's picture

Just got bailed out of jail for punching achmed in the face for charging me $2.00 more than its worth!!  WTF!!!

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 21:26 | 6459940 Yen Cross
Yen Cross's picture

  I wonder who's flash crashing USDX?

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 22:31 | 6460232 JamaicaJim
JamaicaJim's picture

that would be me Yen...my dinkster short is sending SHOCKWAVES....in this room at least...

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 23:41 | 6460553 sun tzu
sun tzu's picture

Euro is shooting for the stars. That should be good for their economy, right?

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 21:26 | 6459942 Question Reality
Question Reality's picture

And the snowball gains momentum and size down the mountain.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 21:37 | 6459967 Yen Cross
Yen Cross's picture

  Yikes!

 

HANG SENG INDEX

 

 
-919.13 (-4.10%)


 
SSE Composite Index  

-182.99 (-5.22%

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 21:44 | 6460018 cougar_w
cougar_w's picture

It's just a flesh wound!

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 22:53 | 6460338 Jack Burton
Jack Burton's picture

Serious shit right now! We are entering into the storm. Central Banks are now caught out of ammunition and the whole shit works about to come down!

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 05:07 | 6461053 buzzkillb
buzzkillb's picture

The silliness doesn't start to crunch until AMZN, FB, NFLX, possibly AAPL and a few others are no longer being traded. The current DOW and S&P are still very hocus pocus dead cat bouncing magic. '08 should have gutted the market, but what do we have here still unicorns and fairy dust trading at obsurd PE's. NO way are any bears falling for this shiznit again. But maybe that's what it takes to tank the market. So fake no one cares anymore.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 01:41 | 6460883 GotGalt
GotGalt's picture

Am I a bad person to be sporting a boner right now?

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 21:33 | 6459970 general ambivalent
general ambivalent's picture

The sky is falling and I want my mommy (Falling space junk)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE5ir7bJnDI

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 21:47 | 6460027 Backtable
Backtable's picture

Gartman is the stock market's equivalent of Baghdad Bob, Iraq's former Mninister of Disinformation...what an idiot (with apologies to idiots everywhere).

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 22:35 | 6460242 JamaicaJim
JamaicaJim's picture

Fartman's gas bag exploded in his old man pants.

Ha!

Fuckin shill....

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 22:52 | 6460332 Jack Burton
Jack Burton's picture

Frackers, at under $40 oil, are losing more than $40-60 for every barrel they pull out of the ground!

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 23:41 | 6460552 cougar_w
cougar_w's picture

It's okay though because it was all managed 401K anyway. Fuck them.

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 00:01 | 6460629 sun tzu
sun tzu's picture

North Dakota light sweet crude spot price $27. There's a $13 differential from WTI due to transport costs. sour crude from ND and Canada around $21 right now. 

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 02:23 | 6460927 Sock Monkey Posse
Sock Monkey Posse's picture

...and the Dakotas just went dark...

 

Mon, 08/24/2015 - 02:37 | 6460944 Paracelsus
Paracelsus's picture

Does this mean more leaping hedgefunders this week? Should I walk on the far inside or far outside of the sidewalk? Hmm....

The most cynical sh#t I ever read was an article about how the bankers are doing life insurance on their own employees,expecting them to bite the dust (concrete).

Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!