R12 perspective-refresh — USO at the top of the channel; thesis working, OIH cooled from the trim zone

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R12 perspective-refresh — USO at the top of the channel; thesis working, OIH cooled from the trim zone

  • Type: refresh (subtype: weekly)
  • event_id: 2026-05-19-us-energy-dominance-r12-uso-at-channel-top
  • Source: R12 post-R11 perspective-refresh fanout — workflow/RUNS.md 2026-05-19 r12-perspective-refresh-fanout; tape from published/research-notes/2026-05-19-r11-stale-thesis-check.md (2026-05-18 closes).
  • Shift: The thesis is working hard and mostly carried only a stale date — but one watch-for has triggered. USO has run from the 2026-05-01 "$124.50 mid-channel" to $149.29 — the top of the body's $110/$150 channel. The body's watch-for #1 set "$150 = gap can't be filled, Camp 2 wakes up." Camp 2 is the oil-200-scenario child; the R12 oil-200 refresh handled that explicitly (kept as an active tail-watch, not promoted — the supply-shock framing is unverified and conflicts with the R10 Gulf record). The rest of the complex is strong-up: XOM/CVX/COP/DVN/EOG/OXY RSI 56-64; HAL/SLB/OIH RSI 62-67. OIH RSI 67 has cooled out of the >70 trim-warning zone the 2026-05-01 refresh flagged — the late-cycle trim signal did not confirm.
  • Effect on thesis: HOLD with conviction; priority: critical unchanged. The thesis is the trade that keeps paying. Two updates: (1) USO at the $150 channel-top is the live watch — handled via the oil-200-scenario child, not by promoting this perspective; (2) the OIH >70-for-2-weeks trim signal lapsed (OIH cooled to 67) — no trim. Canadian premium remains the cleanest expression; no fresh ATH.TO/BTE.TO/TVE.TO tape was pulled this cycle (carried, flagged for the next broad scan).
  • Per-ticker: USO ↑↑ ($149.29 — top of channel, watch-for #1 live), XOM → / CVX → (integrateds, RSI ~mid-50s), COP ↑ / DVN ↑ / EOG ↑ / OXY ↑ (independents strong-up RSI 56-64), HAL ↑ / SLB ↑ (services strong-up), OIH ↑ (RSI 67 — cooled from the >70 trim zone; trim signal lapsed), XLE ↑ / XOP ↑ (strong-up), GLD ↓ (gold-crash, separate perspective).
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