$RIG gonna giv it to ya! The offshore driller sitting at the intersection of every oil supply shock happening right now

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$RIG gonna giv it to ya! The offshore driller sitting at the intersection of every oil supply shock happening right now

I pulled RIG up manually and what I found was interesting. Don’t ask me how I got there because mods here have a stick up their ass but three months of overnight accumulation has been going on with $RIG

ON cumulative return last 90 days: +27.5%. ON cumulative last 30 days: +12.9%. 21-day overnight Sharpe: +7.22 against a two-year baseline of +0.22. Acceleration: +7.00.

One of the highest readings in the entire universe I’ve  been monitoring so far.

August 20: +2.57% overnight. No news. August 31: +2.59% overnight. No news. September 9: +1.56% overnight. No news. September 10: +2.28% overnight. No news. September 15: +1.10% overnight. No news.

Just prints in the dark. Night after night. For three months.

We all know what's happening in oil right now but the market hasn't fully priced it yet. No clue why.

Yanbu port. Saudi Arabia's main Red Sea export terminal. Partially shutdown. Ships being rerouted. The Red Sea was already a warzone with Houthi activity. Now the loading terminal itself is disrupted.

Saudi Arabia is simultaneously telling European buyers it is cutting allocations. Not because they want to. Because they don't have enough supply moving through functioning ports to honor the contracts. Europe is getting less oil than promised and the Saudis are the ones making the call.

Meanwhile Iran is shooting anti-ship missiles at vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz every other week. 21 million barrels per day move through that strait. The US military is actively engaged.

Brent crude at $106 a barrel.

Now tell me why 26.1% of Transocean's float is short.  
$RIG is an offshore driller. Their customers are the oil majors. When Yanbu shuts down and Hormuz becomes a shooting gallery and Saudi Arabia can't fulfill European contracts the world needs more offshore production. It needs deepwater rigs. It needs Transocean.

The short thesis was written when oil was $70 and the world was calm. Neither of those things is true anymore.  
The tape confirmed it before the news did:

Five straight red sessions Sep 2-14. Flushed to $5.45. Then Monday +8.4% on below average volume. The sellers exhausted themselves on the way down. The buyers barely showed up and the stock ripped anyway.

$5.91 stock. $6.6B market cap. 52-week range $3.03 to $7.66. Currently 23% below the high on the day oil hits $105 and Saudi Arabia cuts European supply.

Short interest 26.1%. Every short in this name was positioned for a calm world. That world is gone.  
August earnings beat +128% surprise. October 28 next print. Six weeks.

EMAs all stacked below price. RSI 53.8. Room to upper band at $6.14 before first extension.

Targets:

$6.40 first resistance. Clears on volume, $7.15 next. Yanbu stays shut and Europe keeps getting squeezed, slowly creep up to $8.80 before November earnings / election.

Or simply an explosive short squeeze into a macro catalyst is where this actually goes.

What kills it:

Close below $5.45 on volume. That was the bottom. If it breaks the smart money already left.

Full disclosure:

Already in. Watching the overnight tape tonight like it owes me money.

I found this a tiny bit late. The signal has been running three months. That means you're entering after the accumulation is already deep but before the market has priced in what the overnight buyer already knows.

26% short interest. Saudi port shutdown. Hormuz warzone. Oil at $105. Three months of quiet overnight accumulation that nobody noticed. Look at the price of the stock right before the financial crisis of 2008. Oil had a boom. Not saying we get there at all but that short interest does look a bit enticing. 

Anyways, you do the math..

Bet: Calls a bunch of cheap worthless call options that will most likely expire worthless because I am degenerate piece of shit. $6.5 strike expiring end of week $7 strike expiring next week. Probably will buy more if I like the direction this goes.

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