QAV Blog

In this episode of QAV, record­ed on March 10, 2026, Cameron and Tony nav­i­gate a week of absolute mar­ket chaos trig­gered by esca­lat­ing ten­sions in the Mid­dle East and the result­ing volatil­i­ty in ener­gy prices. The duo pays trib­ute to the leg­endary Bris­bane enter­tain­er Jamie Dunn (the man behind Agro) before div­ing into the “ready, fire, aim” nature of the cur­rent mar­ket, where a sin­gle Trump tweet can swing oil prices by 30% in a mat­ter of hours. In the Club episode, Tony pro­vides a com­pre­hen­sive deep dive into Viva Ener­gy (VEA), exam­in­ing its shift from Coles Express to the “On the Run” (OTR) brand­ing, the chal­lenges of domes­tic refin­ing, and the impact of ille­gal tobac­co sales on con­ve­nience mar­gins. They also touch on the “death of soft­ware” era, Cameron’s suc­cess in cod­ing a new com­mod­i­ty check­er using AI, and why hav­ing a mechan­i­cal invest­ing sys­tem is the only way to stay sane when the world feels like it’s in a “black and white” prize fight.