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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Crude Oil Technical Update - Coiling For A Breakout



The September 14 crude oil contract has coiling in a sideways trading range for the past 7 sessions alternating between 200 day moving average support and 10 day moving average resistance.

The 10 day moving average held as resistance for a third day on Tuesday on early strength as  the September trended lower into the close losing .71 to settle at 97.37.

The breakout from the sideways range in whichever direction will likely be volatile.

A breakout above the 10 day moving average at 97.65 today and two week high resistance between 98.58-98.67 is needed turn the near term trend back up with 100.95-101.00 becoming  the next upside resistance.

While a breakout first below 200 day moving average support at 97.15 followed by last week’s 96.55 low would turn the longer term trend back down with 91.00-92.00 weekly chart support then becoming the next downside objective.

The breakout may come following today’s weekly stocks report.

Technical Indicators:  Moving Average Alignment – Neutral-Bearish
                                       Long Term Trend Following Index – Bearish
                                       Short Term Trend Following Index - Bearish

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