Martin Tillier

Latest articles from Martin

• Choosing The Right Moment To Buy NatGas

  Published 06 May 2016 | viewed 8,252 times

  I have made the point in these pages several times that sometimes, for a trader, square is the best position. There is often a feeling…

• How To Play The Oil Majors In 2016

  Published 29 April 2016 | viewed 4,640 times

  This week saw the first of the major multinational, diversified energy companies reporting earnings for the first calendar quarter of 2016. As expected, they have…

• Why I Am Bullish On ConocoPhillips

  Published 22 April 2016 | viewed 5,962 times

  Ask most people, even those who follow the energy markets pretty closely, who is the world’s largest independent oil exploration and production company and I…

• How You Can Profit From The Doha Meeting

  Published 15 April 2016 | viewed 7,085 times

  In a forex dealing room, where I got my start and my training, talking your book is a time honored tradition. In its simplest form…

• Why Energy Investors Shouldn’t Panic Going into Earnings Season

  Published 08 April 2016 | viewed 6,137 times

  Monday will mark the start of earnings season, the three week period during which the majority of S&P 500 companies report revenue and EPS for…

• EnerSys Has The Best Odds In The EV Market

  Published 01 April 2016 | viewed 6,767 times

  There is nothing I like more than when a big picture, fundamental narrative and a technical setup collide. Each can be reasons to initiate a…

• Is The Coal Industry Void Of Opportunity?

  Published 25 March 2016 | viewed 4,750 times

  Mention the word “coal” to most investors without the word “short” attached in some way and they, understandable and usually rightly, run as fast as…

• Ride The Rally But Practice Caution

  Published 18 March 2016 | viewed 5,541 times

  If the last few weeks in the commodity markets have proved one thing it is that the strongest fundamental influence on pricing in those markets…

• What The ECB Actions Mean For Oil

  Published 11 March 2016 | viewed 4,485 times

  In case it escaped your attention, Mario Draghi, the ECB President, announced a package of measures yesterday designed to stimulate the lagging Euro zone economies.…

• Bottom Fishing In Natural Gas

  Published 04 March 2016 | viewed 8,710 times

  Over my time writing here I think I have established certain things. One of them is that I don’t have a lot of time for…

• Looking For A Pattern In Choppy Oil Markets

  Published 26 February 2016 | viewed 5,066 times

  We, as human beings, love to look for order. We have a problem accepting that not everything falls into neat patterns, so we go back,…

• Another False Rally in Oil

  Published 19 February 2016 | viewed 6,707 times

  Most people who study energy markets believe that, at some point, oil will recover, at least partially. Not even the most bullish observers see $110/Barrel…

• This Might Be The Time To Pick Up NatGas Stock

  Published 12 February 2016 | viewed 5,010 times

  With all of the focus on the price of oil over the last few months the gyrations in the price of the other product from…

• A Significant Fundamental Shift for Oil Amongst All of the Noise

  Published 05 February 2016 | viewed 6,206 times

  It has been another wild week for those of us that track and trade the oil market. It started with a two day decline of…

• 3 Rules for Trading Volatile Markets

  Published 30 January 2016 | viewed 4,995 times

  For those who like to trade in the energy markets the last few weeks have been marked by one word: volatility. With 4 or 5…

• How To Survive This ‘Traders Market’ For Oil

  Published 22 January 2016 | viewed 4,910 times

  It is hard to escape the feeling that, at some point, oil will bounce back. The dramatic yet sustained decline in WTI suggests to those…

• Exaggerated Forecasts As A Contrarian Signal

  Published 16 January 2016 | viewed 6,151 times

  When markets correct dramatically, as stocks have done since the beginning of the year, the cynical trader side of me comes out in force. I…

• Don’t Let Oil Markets Scare You, There Is Still Money To Make

  Published 09 January 2016 | viewed 6,163 times

  The last year or so have been, to say the least, painful for long term oil investors but, as I have said before, for traders…

• These Could Be The Winners Of 2016

  Published 02 January 2016 | viewed 5,230 times

  Conventional wisdom would have it that 2015 was a disastrous year for oil and other energy industry related stocks. Certainly for those that have a…

• Fed’s Decision Could Help Avoid The Worst Case Scenario For Oil

  Published 18 December 2015 | viewed 7,084 times

  Newcomers to financial markets could be forgiven for not knowing this, as we haven’t seen a rate hike in the U.S. for nine years, but…