It Might Be Time to Jump Aboard

I know, it is the strangest pattern, kind of like a hidden hand. It's when you see Exxon (XOM - commentary - Cramer's Take) rallying and rallying hard while oil is down.

Exxon is the stock that can be moved up like a small-cap. So can Chevron (CVX - commentary - Cramer's Take).

None of these rallies has started without these first taking off, especially when the oil futures are going down.

Often they are the only oil stocks going up when the whole rest of the group is rolling over.

Today's no different.

It's why I was able to detect that the market was done going down and would now turn and run.

When you consider that many people are saying that the redemptions end today, you can bet that there will be people anticipating that end of selling and get on the boat Monday.

So why not get on the boat today?

That's the way it's been.

I don't expect it to be different today.

At the time of publication, Cramer was long Chevron. Know What You Own: Other stocks related to this column are BP (BP - commentary - Cramer's Take) , ConocoPhillips (COP - commentary - Cramer's Take) , Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA - commentary - Cramer's Take) , PetroChina (PTR - commentary - Cramer's Take) and Total SA (TOT - commentary - Cramer's Take) .

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