Oil Trading Alert: What's Next For Crude Oil?

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Published : November 19th, 2014
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Oil Trading Alert originally sent to subscribers on November 19, 2014, 9:34 AM.

Trading position (short-term; our opinion): Long positions with a stop-loss at $72.78 are justified from the risk/reward perspective.

On Tuesday, crude oil lost 1.67% as ongoing speculation the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries will not cut output continued to weigh on the price. As a result, the commodity extended losses and approached the key support line. Will light crude finally rebound from here?

In the recent weeks, market watchers have become increasingly doubtful that OPEC will cut production to reduce a global glut of oil and support the price of the commodity at its Nov. 27 meeting. Although Goldman Sachs said in a note that it expects the cartel to cut production by about 700,000 barrels a day, it didn’t change investors’ sentiment and the above-mentioned key fundamental factor continued to weigh also yesterday. In this environment, light crude extended losses, hitting an intraday low of $74.12. Will we see further deterioration? (charts courtesy of http://stockcharts.com).

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From the very short-term perspective, we see that crude oil extended losses and dropped below the lower border of the declining trend channel. This time, oil bulls didn’t manage to invalidate the breakdown and the commodity closed the day under this support line, which is a bearish signal that suggests further deterioration. Nevertheless, we should keep in mind that even if the commodity tests the strength of the recent low in the coming day, the space for further declines seems limited as the 50% Fibonacci retracement still holds. If the proximity to this key support encourage oil investors to push the buy button, we could see a corrective upswing and the initial upside target would be the barrier of $80 and the previous lows.

Summing up, although crude oil extended losses, the commodity remains above the 50% Fibonacci retracement. This suggests that we still could see a rebound from here in the coming week even if crude oil re-test the strength of this key support level.

Very short-term outlook: bullish
Short-term outlook: mixed with bullish bias
MT outlook: mixed
LT outlook: bullish

Trading position (short-term; our opinion): Long positions with a stop-loss at $72.78 are justified from the risk/reward perspective. We will keep you informed should anything change, or should we see a confirmation/invalidation of the above.

Thank you.

Nadia Simmons
Forex & Oil Trading Strategist
Przemyslaw Radomski, CFA
Founder, Editor-in-chief

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Przemyslaw Radomski is the founder, owner and the main editor of www.SunshineProfits.com. Being passionately curious about the market’s behavior he uses his statistical and financial background to question the common views and profit on the misconceptions. “Don’t fight the emotionality on the market – take advantage of it!” is one of his favorite mottos. His time is divided mainly to analyzing various markets with emphasis on the precious metals, managing his own portfolio, writing commentaries, essays and developing financial software. Most of the time he’s got left is spent on reading everything he can about the markets, psychology, philosophy and statistics. Mr. Radomski has started investigating the markets for his private use well before starting his professional career. He used to work as an informatics consultant, but this time-consuming profession left him little time for his true passion – the interdisciplinary market analysis. Establishing www.SunshineProfits.com gave him the opportunity to put his thoughts, ideas, and experience into form available to other investors.
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