Market Overview: Crude Oil Futures
The market fashioned a weekly Crude Oil follow-through shopping for testing close to the April excessive. If there’s a pullback, the bulls need at the very least a small second leg sideways to as much as retest the present leg excessive excessive (now Jan 15). The bears see the present transfer as a purchase vacuum and a bull leg inside a buying and selling vary.
Crude oil futures
The Weekly crude oil chart
- This week’s candlestick on the weekly Crude Oil chart was one other consecutive bull bar closing across the center of its vary with an extended tail above.
- Final week, we mentioned that the market should still be within the sideways to up part. Merchants would see if the bulls may create sustained follow-through shopping for over the subsequent few weeks or if the market would commerce barely greater however stall across the October or July highs space as an alternative.
- The market traded greater testing the July excessive and close to the April excessive, however the candlestick closed with an extended tail above which signifies some promoting exercise.
- The bulls received a follow-through bull bar following the breakout above the triangle.
- They received a measured transfer primarily based on the peak of the tight buying and selling vary which took them to the July excessive space.
- Subsequent, they need a retest of the April and September highs.
- If there’s a pullback, they need at the very least a small second leg sideways to as much as retest the present leg excessive excessive (now Jan 15).
- The bears desire a reversal from a double prime bear flag (Jul 5 and Jan 15).
- They hope that the July or April highs will act as resistance.
- They see the present transfer as a purchase vacuum and a bull leg inside a buying and selling vary.
- They need a retest of the center of the buying and selling vary (across the 20-week EMA space).
- Up to now, the market fashioned a bull leg testing the higher third of the massive buying and selling vary.
- As robust because the transfer is, it may nonetheless solely be a purchase vacuum and a bull leg inside a buying and selling vary.
- For now, merchants will see if the bulls can proceed to create follow-through shopping for.
- Or will the market stall across the July excessive space, adopted by a pullback within the weeks forward?
- The market stays in a big buying and selling vary.
- Merchants will BLSH (Purchase Low, Promote Excessive) till there’s a breakout from both route with sustained follow-through shopping for/promoting.
- Which means promoting within the higher third and shopping for within the decrease third of the buying and selling vary.
The Each day crude oil chart
- The market traded greater within the first half of the week testing close to the April excessive. Crude Oil then fashioned an ii (inside inside) sample.
- Final week, we mentioned that the market should still commerce at the very least somewhat greater. Merchants would see if the bulls may create follow-through shopping for testing the July excessive space or if the market would stall across the October 8 excessive space as an alternative.
- The bulls received a robust breakout, and a measured transfer primarily based on the peak of the tight buying and selling vary.
- They hope to get a retest of the highest of the buying and selling vary (Sep 2023).
- The transfer up is in a decent buying and selling vary. Which means robust bulls.
- If there’s a pullback, they need at the very least a small second leg sideways to as much as retest the present leg excessive excessive (now Jan 15).
- The bulls should proceed creating follow-through shopping for to extend the chances of testing the highest of the buying and selling vary.
- The bears need the market to reverse and retest the center of the buying and selling vary from a double prime bear flag (Jul 5 and Jan 15).
- They need the July or April highs to behave as resistance.
- They see the present transfer as a purchase vacuum and a bull leg inside a buying and selling vary.
- They should create robust bear bars to indicate that they’re again in management.
- Since this week fashioned an ii (inside inside) sample, the market is in breakout mode.
- The bears desire a breakout under whereas the bulls desire a breakout above the ii sample. The primary breakout can fail 50% of the time.
- Up to now, the shopping for strain for the reason that breakout from the tight buying and selling vary is stronger (consecutive bull bars, massive bull bars) than the promoting strain (bear bars with no follow-through promoting).
- If there’s a pullback, odds barely favor at the very least a small second leg sideways to as much as retest the present leg excessive excessive (Jan 15).
- Merchants will see if the bulls can create extra follow-through shopping for testing the April excessive space.
- Or will the market stall across the July or April highs space, adopted by a pullback to the 20-day EMA as an alternative?
- For now, the present transfer should still be a purchase vacuum and a bull leg inside a buying and selling vary.
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