28/05/2026
⚖️ The Long-Short Edge: Trade the Regime, Not the Forecast
The biggest mistake in crude oil is treating it like a one-way macro thesis. Oil is better traded as a probabilistic market: you don’t need to know where it will be next week; you need to know whether buyers or sellers are controlling the tape right now.
A strong long-short framework is:
Above key VWAP / resistance reclaim = long bias.
Below failed rebound / breakdown retest = short bias.
Inside the range = smaller size, faster exits, less leverage.
That approach prevents the common trap of overtrading noise in the middle of the range, where crude is most likely to punish both sides.