The field guide

The dashboard shows you what’s happening right now. These pages explain the machinery underneath — in regular English, with no predictions and no advice, because that’s the house rule.

Just want the current status? Is the Strait of Hormuz open right now? answers that live.

The guides

What happens if the Strait of Hormuz closes?

The plumbing of an actual closure: why most of the oil has no other route, what “closed” really looks like, and why it rarely sticks.

How much of the world’s oil rides through Hormuz?

About one barrel in five — plus a fifth of global LNG. What the number means, who depends on it, and why markets sometimes shrug.

How a far-away strait reaches your wallet

The transmission chain, link by link: strait → oil → pump → portfolio, with the lags and the one link that runs on belief.

The glossary, in plain English

Every term on the dashboard — Sahm rule, days of supply, breakeven inflation, divergence — minus the jargon.