WTI crude oil futures fluctuated higher, trading at $84.89 per barrel, an increase of 1.09%. Since March 27, oil prices have continued to rise and have hit a five-month high. During the European session, WTI crude oil prices continued to rise, hitting $85.42 during the session, before falling slightly during European midday trading. To some extent, oil's rally is...
Defying our expectations, the West Texas Intermediate crude oil rose above $75 and began to form a rectangle pattern between $76.16 and $79.25 (following a breakdown of negotiations between Israel and Hamas). Currently, the USOIL is trading near the lower bound of this range, which also coincides with the 20-day SMA that acts as an alternative support level. On...
Price action has been very choppy on the daily crude oil chart, but if we place a line chart over the top is shows prices are trying to break out of a small triangle / pennant. Whilst these are usually expected to be continuation pattern, they can also make decent reversal pattern. And this case, we've see prices hold above $70 on a closing basis, and the lower...
6.15 Analysis of today's crude oil market trend: Overnight, EIA synchronous API inventories all rebounded in varying degrees, confirming the current market concerns about poor demand. At the same time, with the Fed’s interest rate decision, the expectation of further interest rate hikes in the future has risen again, and the market pressure remains. The...
A month ago, we noted that USOIL would likely stay stuck within the wide range between $70 and $82. We outlined several developments that pointed to a neutral trend and said that even if the price fell below $70, we would expect it to be shortlived due to the U.S. administration seeking to refill its Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR) near that price tag. A week...
For several months, we provided price rankings for USOIL, most of which were fulfilled already. The only price target we kept was 70$ per barrel, which was nearly hit last Friday when the price stopped at 70.10$ (just 0.13% away from the price target). With the price level nearly hit, it is time for us to step away from the market and reconsider the situation....
In our previous update on West Texas Intermediate crude oil, we updated our price target from long-term to medium-term. Additionally, we stated that this price target could soon become short-term, depending on oil market developments. Today, finally, USOIL hit a new yearly low at 73.62$, further confirming our bearish thesis. Accordingly, we continue to maintain...
Last week, our short-term price target of 80 USD was reached. Because of that, we would like to reiterate that we remain bearish on USOIL. In addition to that, we maintain our long-term price target of 70 USD. Illustration 1.01 Illustration 1.01 shows the similarity between the oil price pattern in 2008 and now. Technical analysis - daily time frame RSI,...
In the midst of a turbulent global economy and in the face of a worldwide recession scenario; light crude oil is testing the bullish trend. Technically, it is supported by the 200-period moving average, while testing a very strong support located between 95 and 88 USD. The first key is not to lose 90.
In early April 2022, we said the oil bull market peaked. Then, a bit later, we stated that if the Russian crude oil was to be banned in the EU, we would see another bounce in price and possibly a new top. Despite that, we set a long-term price target for USOIL at 90 USD; we still hold this price target as we continue to be bearish on oil. In addition to that, we...
Exactly one month ago, we stated that the Russian oil ban would lead to an uptick in oil prices. Since then, the European Union has started to take measures concerning its oil dependence on Russia. Meanwhile, WTI oil has risen from 106 USD up to 114 USD, where it trades currently. Despite being bullish in the short-term and medium-term, we also stated (in our...
The oil market is currently the battleground of a tremendously hard-fought struggle that will likely resolve in favor of higher prices with an increase in volatility along the way. After decisively holding the line above $100/bbl in recent weeks, Crude Oil looks ready to extend gains. On one side you have the price suppression from the US-led SPR releases,...
Today WTI oil broke above 70 USD and it currently trades around 71.50 USD per barrel. In our previous ideas we stated that ongoing politics between OPEC and the U.S. presented headwinds for the price of oil. We also noted that USOIL reached oversold conditions and its price was very attractive for long position (re)entry (as we remained bullish in long-term). Then...
Contrary to our expectations, OPEC's meeting resulted in a further drop in the price of USOIL. Sudden drop of more than 2 USD per barrel (to as low as 62.46 USD) occured on headline news regarding the proposal on output hike by Russian Federation. Sudden selloff is shown on 1 minute chart below: It took merely 5 minutes for USOIL to drop over 4.3%. We...
In our previous idea we noted that we saw short-term and medium-term headwinds for further rise in the price of oil due to ongoing politics between the U.S. and OPEC. We also stated that we expected the OPEC to take countermeasures in response to release of strategic oil reserves by the U.S. and its allies. We await tomorrow's OPEC meeting (and with it more...
USOIL ceased its decline at 80.62 USD per barrel just three days ago. Since then USOIL reversed to the upside and now it trades around 84.25 USD per barrel. In our previous two ideas we noted that despite correction in price we would remain bullish on oil in medium-term and long-term. In addition to that, we noted correction in price could serve as good (re)entry...
In our last idea we pointed out that RSI reached overbought condition and that such occurence is often followed by correction. We also noted that correction would drag price towards 75 USD per barrel. In addition to that we said that we would remain bullish even if correction took place. We continue to maintain that bullish stance. We actually think that current...
USOIl reached our short-term price target overnight. We continue to be bullish on WTI oil. Because of that we would like to change medium-term price target of 77.50 USD to short-term price target. Similarly, we would like to change long-term price target of 80 USD to medium-term price target. We would also like to set new long term price target to 90 USD per...