The Strait of Hormuz Is on Fire and Oil Traders Are Just Getting Started
US-Israeli strikes on Tehran, Iranian missiles hitting Tel Aviv, and a near-shuttered Strait of Hormuz — and somehow the market data feed just says 0.0
Ticker Ratings
| Ticker | Rating | Entry Price | Current | $ Gain | % Gain |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USO United States Oil Fund, LP | buy | $105.48 | — | — | — |
Let's set the scene: Israeli jets are striking Tehran, Iran is firing missile waves at Tel Aviv, the US has launched hundreds of Tomahawk missiles, and the Pentagon is war-gaming weeks of ground operations in Iran. Meanwhile, our market data feed is confidently reporting 0.0 across the board. Completely normal. Everything is fine.
What is moving is the Strait of Hormuz story — and it's ugly. Bloomberg's podcast flagged ship traffic collapsing from 140+ vessels daily to just 30–40, two LNG tankers turning around mid-route, and the IMO formally pausing evacuations through the strait. Jeremiah Babe on YouTube put it bluntly: a $40 trillion indebted nation just opened another military front, and someone has to pay for it. Spoiler: it's us. $USO is the obvious sentiment winner here, with Reddit and finance YouTube almost universally bullish on crude as Saudi petrochemical facilities also take hits from IRGC strikes.
Britain convening 40 countries to reopen the Hormuz strait is either the most reassuring or most terrifying headline of the week — hasn't been decided yet.
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