{"id":78804,"date":"2026-04-02T14:46:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=78804"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:46:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:46:34","slug":"oil-up-84-bitcoin-down-23-q1-2026-turns-the-playbook-upside-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=78804","title":{"rendered":"Oil Up 84%, Bitcoin Down 23%: Q1 2026 Turns The Playbook Upside Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Oil&#8217;s blistering rally and crypto&#8217;s stumble made the first quarter of 2026 feel like a regime change rather <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/trading-ideas\/movers\/26\/04\/51615744\/the-mother-of-all-energy-crises-is-just-beginning-iea-warns-april-will-be-much-worse\">than a routine quarter.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>USO shares are climbing. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/USO\"><em>See the chart and price action here.\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oil, as proxied by the <strong>United States Oil Fund ETF<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/USO\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"USO\" data-exchange=\"ARCA\" rel=\"noopener\">(NYSE:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/USO\">USO<\/a>), surged roughly 84% in Q1, turning a traditionally cyclical commodity into the standout momentum trade of the quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In fact, USO gained 55.3% in March alone, marking its best monthly performance in history, and Q1 was the fund&#8217;s best quarterly performance ever, according to Benzinga Pro data.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, digital gold lost its shine: <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>), tracked via spot-exposed vehicles like<strong> iShares Bitcoin Trust <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/IBIT\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"IBIT\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/IBIT\">IBIT<\/a>), dropped about 23%, marking one of its worst opening quarters in years and the weakest return of any major asset in Bespoke Investment Group&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bespokepremium.com\/interactive\/posts\/think-big-blog\/q1-2026-recap\">Q1 review.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Q1 Winners\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Bespoke review matrix shows that strength is clustered in real assets and cyclicals rather than the mega-cap growth complex that dominated prior years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Energy ETFs ripped higher alongside USO&#8217;s &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/trading-ideas\/movers\/26\/04\/51627464\/oil-up-84-bitcoin-down-23-q1-2026-turns-the-playbook-upside-down?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Oil\" up bitcoin down q1 turns the playbook upside>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil&#8217;s blistering rally and crypto&#8217;s stumble made the first quarter of 2026 feel like a regime change rather than a routine quarter.\u00a0 USO shares are climbing. See the chart and price action here.\u00a0 Oil, as proxied by the United States Oil Fund ETF (NYSE:USO), surged roughly 84% in Q1, turning a traditionally cyclical commodity into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-78804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}