I know this is supposed to be facetious, but UHAL stock is actually quite attractive at current levels. They own a growing self-storage business but don't break out the profit contribution (although they do disclose the revenue contribution). Pure-play self-storage stocks like EXR/SSS/PSA trade for 18-20x 2016 TEV/EBITDA. If you give UHAL credit for that on the estimated earnings from the self-storage business, you are getting the moving business for a very undemanding valuation despite it growing 5-6% per year and with a dominant market position.

Personally I'd buy oil futures, it's trading low right now and it's almost certainly going to rebound.

It's very very likely to rebound, but there would be some question of when, and whether that happens before or after your futures contract delivery date.

I remember seeing gas at $4-5/gallon (in the northeast USA), and figuring that everyone should be happier to stock up while it's not far more expensive, and that it's bound to just keep climbing forever as we run out of global supply. Gas is selling for $2.50/gallon or so now, which doesn't mean that it won't climb again and retail for $20 or $100 a gallon in the future, but it does mean that if I bought futures in gas ten years ago for delivery now, then I would have lost of lot of money.

Exciting new SV market : U-Haul startups

tag-line: "Location based, real-time, mass-aggregator content manipulation"

No, the smart investment is in "cash" right now.

I sat on cash since 2008 and don't feel particularly smart.

I don't think this is a bad time to revisit an old chinese proverb :

https://sivers.org/horses

What is 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 - 48?

no, the smart thing is to quickly create a startup, uber for uhaul. slick app, shows all available trailer and trucks, you order and they appear in minutes, all transactions done through app.

there, go get rich (or not).