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Will oil prices take off? One sentence from Trump makes the market start imagining the plot
Sometimes the market is just like an audience that loves to imagine—give it a little clue, and it can fill in the story on its own.
When Trump mentioned “escort the Hormuz Strait,” it was like dropping a stone, and the market immediately rippled. Some started to anticipate rising oil prices, some began positioning in energy stocks, and others rushed straight into safe-haven assets.
But the real question is: how much of these expectations is truly supported by “real-world fundamentals”?
Historical experience tells us that what genuinely affects oil prices is whether supply is interrupted, not the statements themselves. If oil tankers are still passing normally, the upside typically can’t be sustained.
So this kind of news is more like a “mood trigger.”
For short-term trading, it’s an opportunity; for long-term investing, it’s noise.
The key is whether you want to catch the swings or watch the trend. #Gate广场五月交易分享