Gareth Soloway argues that oil’s sharp selloff validated his bearish technical call and his short trade, which he says made about $50k. He ties the move to a topping pattern, trader psychology, and headlines around Trump/politics, then briefly extends the same chart logic to gold, silver, the dollar, and Treasury yields.
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Gareth Soloway opens by identifying himself as chief market strategist at verifiedinvesting.com and says the video is a deep dive into oil after he posted a short-bias video the prior Friday. He says that video drew hostile comments, but oil then fell more than 10%, which he presents as confirmation that charts and psychology outweighed retail sentiment and news flow. He claims he personally made $50k on the oil short and congratulates viewers who followed him. The core of the video is a technical argument. He highlights a reversal candle he calls a topping tail, followed by a bear flag / inside-bar style consolidation, and says these patterns imply a high probability that the high was in and that downside would follow. He repeatedly frames the setup as probability-based, saying the trade had around a 75% edge from the chart alone and about 80% once he layered in political psychology. …
Tactically, oil looks vulnerable on rallies as long as the recent breakdown structure holds, while equities have room for a relief bounce if the dollar and yields keep easing. The main near-term risk is a sharp headline-driven reversal in crude that invalidates the short re-entry idea.
Over the next few weeks, the cleaner base case is continued pressure in oil unless it can reclaim the broken area and prove the selloff was only a temporary flush. If the dollar stays softer and yields keep drifting lower, the equity bounce can extend, but that view depends on follow-through rather than one session’s move.
Structurally, the speaker’s regime view is that price action and recurring crowd behavior dominate headlines, so the same technical patterns can be traded across oil, metals, FX, and rates. He also implies that the bond market can discipline policy when yields rise enough, making rates a lasting macro constraint.
Oil fell more than 10% after his prior bearish call.
He states that after he said he was shorting oil, oil then dropped sharply.
The topping-tail reversal candle suggested the high in oil was likely already in.
He says the candle pattern implies a high-probability top.
The bear-flag / inside-bar structure increased the downside probability to about 75%.
He explicitly quantifies the setup’s odds after the consolidation pattern.
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