The availability of cheap oil might very well be the biggest issue we are going to face in our lifetime both as a society and as independent investors. Overlooking the oil angle just because you’re not interested in energy stocks or commodities is financial suicide.
A lot of people might be vary of betting for rising oil prices because it’s basically betting against your own team. Also, if crude oil prices are already at record heights, people assume there’s not much room to go upwards anymore. Since you’re already on this site, it’s fair to assume that you’re interested in investment opportunities related to rising energy prices. If that, however, is not the case, I still wouldn’t recommend investing any money into anything unless you first figure out what their correlation to oil prices are.
Oil prices rising 5%, 10% or 100% is very well possible and if that airline stock you’re thinking about buying is going to get hurt even if prices stay at these levels for a long time, then do yourself a favour and be aware of the risk.
