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Is this the second reason for the war in Iran?

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This commodity is un-playable (or very playable, if you get it exactly right):

oili short squeeze

To me, this seems like the oil shorts are getting squeezed pretty hard. There is probably a lot of money sloshing around there, a lot of money changing hands right now, precisely because of this volatility spike.

Will the war be over as soon as the shorts are bled out and thoroughly destroyed? For the record, the shorts are Western (UK and USA), not Iranian in any way. Anyway, all the betting is done on paper with future contracts or some such.

...and a day later, this headline was added, confirming that the oil price action had significant effects on some market participants:

world biggest hedge funds crushed by oil price surge

 

was in iran, oil shipments

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On 2026-04-17 piousbox said:
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...and it took about a month to clear out the negative sentiment. From March 9th, to... april 10th, actually earlier, much earlier than that. So this TACO whip lasted 3 weeks, maybe less.

But then this begs the question: did I reposition completely from long to short in just 3 weeks?