The Capitulation Of The Superspike Bulls  

Goldman's oil "superspike" team seems to have given up the ghost (after a presumably very profitable 4 year period), with the firm closing oil trading recommendations. From FT Alphaville - It’s official, Goldman capitulates on oil.

Goldman’s latest commodities note is out, and this is all you need to know:

Closing our oil trading recommendations.

Although we have emphasized in the past few weeks that continued weak oil demand exacerbated by constrained credit conditions will contribute to soften near-term fundamentals keeping WTI prices, timespreads and gasoline cracks under pressure, we have left our oil trading recommendations open, expecting that high volatility would provide a better exit point to our trades. The volatility in the past few weeks has mostly been to the downside and the pressure on the oil complex has increased. In the near term, we do not expect significant upside potential and as a consequence we are closing all of our oil trading recommendations.