Speaking of black gold — that black stuff that drives the world crazy — we think the time has come to exit the short side of OIL.  In fact we would buy a little of it.  We remarked some time back that it was a short and readers who took the hint should have made a barrel full.  Whereas it was overbought before it is oversold now.  Don’t blame us if this doesn’t work out.  .300 is a hell of a good batting average with the hard ball.  How do they do that in cricket?  Do they have batting averages?  And if not, why not?