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Thursday, November 19, 2015

Natural Gas Corner - Technical Update - Bearish Triangle Forming




Another upside rally attempt on Wednesday was for a second time this week sold back lower by the session’s close.  The spot December 15 contract topped out at a 2.410 high but couldn’t hold into the gains trading lower to a 2.347 daily close, down .024.

A small triangle is forming on the chart with lower triangle support at the 2.320-2.330 level.  A breakout under this support would initiate the triangle turning  2.230 into the next downside support followed by the 2.188 contract low.  The downside measuring objective for the triangle would be for the December contract to trade down to 2.100 which is also the bottom of an open gap on the daily  continuation chart.

The breakout from the triangle could also come to the upside above upper triangle trend line resistance at 2.380-2.400.  If this occurs, 2.650 would be the upside objective for the triangle. 

Triangles have a 75% chance of being a continuation pattern versus a 25% chance of being a reversal pattern.  In this case, the 75% chance favors a downside breakout from the triangle.

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

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