The world is about to change forever.

The International Energy Agency predicts China will surpass the United States as the world’s largest energy consumer shortly after 2010.

U.S. consumers are already starting to see the impact. In the midst of an anemic recovery, oil is above $80 a barrel, the national average gasoline price is $2.57 a gallon, and natural gas prices are still more than double what they were for decades.

There will be corrections, but energy prices are going higher and contrarian investors should be spotting a sizeable opportunity in the most beaten up, out of favor energy sector in the world.

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The last few weeks have not been good for the markets.

If you’ve enjoyed the recent rally and, like we’ve urged, stopped arguing with the market and just rode it out for all its worth, you’ve been caught up a little in this correction.

The downturn was inevitable. We all knew it was going to come. And we wanted to prepare ourselves for the cost of riding out the rally.

But right now, the markets are acting like its 2008 all over again and investors and traders are running for the exits.

Fears of a Greece debt contagion are starting to wane. At this point it looks like the cash will be handed over to Greece and in return he Greek government will make some promises to slash spending over the next three years which, of course, will never materialize.

But hey, that’s long-term and this is Wall Street. But after the Greece solution is revealed the markets will likely face three headwinds which must pass before the markets make another big move upwards.

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Rallies and bubbles tend to last far longer and grow much larger than most anyone expects.

Given what has happened in the past two years and the way things are starting out this year, there’s no reason to expect this time around to be any different.

The biggest headlines of the week tell the complete story though. High-profile views on the emerging China Bubble and revealing stories on what most investors are doing with their money now reveal a lot about where the market’s next move is likely to be. As usual, it will likely surprise more folks than not.

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He’s been called the King of Oil.

He made hundreds of millions of dollars by foreseeing the surges in oil prices of the 1970s.

When the oil market was dominated by a handful of large oil companies (the Seven Sisters), he took them on…and won.

He’s an entrepreneur, a billionaire, and at one point in time was one of the most controversial fugitives of the 20th century.

Think what you will about Marc Rich, but no one can deny he has made a fortune by being right at the right time when it comes to geopolitics and commodity prices.

Now he’s making his view of the future available for everyone. And just like his trading ideas in the 60s and 70s, his expectations may go unnoticed by the majority, but they have a good chance at making a lot of money for those willing to listen now.

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What if I told you I have a secret trading system that’s right 98% of the time?

Would you be interested in what I thought the market was going to do next?

Or would you just think about how even the best traders and investors are right about 2/3rds of the time. And that kind of consistency, combined with proper discipline, is enough to make a fortune over time.

You could just call me a liar, a criminal, or a crook too.

Or you could just assume I work at Goldman Sachs.

That’s right, with earnings season just around the corner and another round of seven and eight figure bonuses for the top traders at everyone’s most hated investment bank, the headlines will focus on the size of the bonuses instead of how they were made.

But if you go beyond the headline-making bonuses, you can see how they made so much money and how you can use it to your advantage. Here's how.

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