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Nobody's going to spend money to build new storage facilities for an oil glut that will go away in, at most, a month or two.


If you're sure about that, I hope you're investing accordingly...


Not exactly. If you are not sure the glut will last for a while and then disappear you don't invest. There is a ton of money to make but only if you get the details right, if any is wrong there is a ton of money to lose.


If you're sure the glut will disappear within two months there are lots of safe investments.


What if you don't know if it is 2 months or 2 years? There are great investments either way, but some investments only work with one and lose badly in the other. Thus if you are not sure you can't invest.


You describe a different situation than thread parent described.


Not exactly. I'm sure the glut will go away, but my error bars are large enough that I'm not comfortable betting on it.




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