Crude Oil Brent
UKOIL a long opportunity 🦐UKOIL on the4h chart tested the support area and could not break below.
The market is now trading below the resistance level at 89.50 and a break above can be seen.
How can is approach this scenario?
I will wait for a clear break of the area and if the market will provide me an opportunity i will set a nice long order according to the Plancton's strategy.
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Keep in mind.
🟣 Purple structure -> Monthly structure.
🔴 Red structure -> Weekly structure.
🔵 Blue structure -> Daily structure.
🟡 Yellow structure -> 4h structure.
⚫️ Black structure -> <4h structure.
Here is the Plancton0618 technical analysis , please comment below if you have any question.
The ENTRY in the market will be taken only if the condition of the Plancton0618 strategy will trigger
Bank of England Emergency Bond PurchaseLast week, UK pension funds, which hold highly leveraged bond derivative positions, were facing a nearly $1 trillion loss as bond prices crashed and yields rose. The crash in the bond market has been underway for years, but the tipping point occurred when the UK prime minister pledged to cut taxes at a time when inflation is soaring into the double digits.
Cutting taxes worsens inflation because less taxes means consumers have more money to spend on inflating goods. Cutting taxes while inflation is high therefore risks worsening inflation or inducing hyperinflation. Fear of this caused the price of UK bonds to crash and yields to spike. (As many of you know well, bond prices move down when yields rise). This crash caused pension funds with highly leveraged bond positions to experience amplified losses, which caused these funds to need to put up more cash collateral on their losing positions. This could have caused a downward spiral because these funds may have had to sell bonds to raise more cash, which would have had a negative feedback loop that could have sent prices down further, amplifying losses more, and creating the need to raise even more cash collateral. The Bank of England had to make an emergency purchase of bonds.
However, by purchasing bonds, the Bank of England has taken an action that will now make inflation worse (there will be a lag effect). Whenever a central bank purchases bonds, it is adding liquidity to the system (when the central bank buys bonds this has the effect of increasing the money supply). Increasing the money supply when inflation is at a multi-decade high is super risky. At best it could risk inflation staying elevated for longer, at worst it could spiral into hyperinflation.
In the chart above, reproduced below, you can see that when priced in the British pound, crude oil prices are barely declining (as we would have expected from all the rate hikes). If anything, crude oil is looking poised to increase further.
The Bank of England, and other central banks, are trapped. Until they stop monetary easing (adding to the money supply) and tighten the money supply such that rates are higher than core inflation, inflation will continue to get worse. Yet, as we now see in the UK, central banks cannot tighten the money supply sufficiently to accomplish this without causing a financial crisis. The rapidity with which the Bank of England switched back on the money printer, despite double-digit inflation, has me convinced that central banks will choose the hyperinflation route.
In fact, hyperinflation is already happening in some countries. Argentina has hiked rates to 75% (not 75 bps, 75% or 7,500 bps) and yet inflation continues to spiral higher. There is actually no limit to how bad inflation can get. When people need to pay $100 trillion dollars for food, as in Zimbabwe in 2008, people usually stop believing that central bank fiat notes are valuable and the system collapses.
Look at the chart below. I did not log-adjust the chart so that you can see that hyperinflation is when commodity prices rise exponentially over time.
For the chart, I used the Invesco Commodity Index Tracking Fund (DBC) and priced it in Argentine pesos. I used cross plots on a smoothened moving average.
This level of hyperinflation always leads to some kind of crisis. Either interest rates must crush demand and cause economic decline, or hyperinflation eventually causes a monetary crisis whereby people stop using the currency altogether. Commodity hyperinflation also leads to political instability and the rise of fascist or communist dictators. Furthermore, when these crises occur on a global scale, they can precipitate conflict, and conflict in turn can worsen commodity shortages.
For those who have been thinking that inflation has peaked globally, there is no chart that I have seen which validates that conclusion. Indeed, as shown in the chart below, commodity prices continue to break record highs in some parts of the world. In most currencies, commodity prices appear to be bull flagging.
Compare the below two charts. One shows how commodity prices continue to spiral higher in Argentina, despite the central bank hiking rates all the way to 75%, compared to 2008, when commodity prices fell while the central bank raised interest rates to just 12%. This shows that we are dealing with a much more dangerous type of inflation.
I posted these figures to show just how bad inflation can get and the risks associated with monetary easing. Many people are believing the pig-in-a-python theory, where they think inflation is transitory and will improve when the massive COVID stimulus passes through the pipeline. However, what they fail to realize is that central banks have been putting an endless stream of pigs in the python for decades through monetary easing. Economies have become totally dependent on monetary easing and central banks are now trapped in needing to maintain it. Yet, if central banks continue monetary easing, inflation cannot come down. It just keeps spiraling higher so long as monetary easing continues, assuming commodity shortages also continue. Commodity shortages are deep-rooted and are due in part to war, deglobalization, aging and less productive populations, and climate change to name several factors. Monetary policy has little efficacy on these supply issues.
Sri Lanka was the canary in the coal mine. It was the first central government to fall due to commodity hyperinflation. And yet, even after a central government collapse, commodity prices in Sri Lanka are still high. The chart below shows that commodities appear to be bull-flagging, and poised to go higher.
Core inflation which is typically stable in the United States is now exploding to a 40-year high. If the Federal Reserve is to be successful at hiking rates to quell inflation, it must hike rates above the core inflation level. There is virtually no central bank with an interest rate higher than core inflation. Indeed, Japan continues to maintain negative interest rates. As I noted in a prior post, because negative interest rates incentivize the creation of money through credit, negative interest rates reflect limitless growth of the money supply.
However, as alluded to above, the Fed is trapped. It must hike rates above core inflation, but it also cannot hike rates above core inflation. Decades of monetary easing have left a highly leveraged economy totally reliant on low interest rates. Hiking rates as far as would be needed to quell inflation would likely lead to an economic depression. Pension funds are already under tremendous strain from the hiking and yet the charts show that the scope of tightening that will be necessary is not even in sight yet.
The best-case scenario is that commodity supplies improve and demand softens enough to stabilize rates but not so much that economies decline significantly. Even in this perfect mitigation scenario, stock market returns are likely to be muted for years to come.
CRUDE OIL (WTI) Key Levels to Watch 🛢
As I predicted, OIL is growing nicely.
Here is my fresh structure analysis & key levels to watch for you:
Resistance 1: 89.0 - 90.35 area
Resistance 2: 97.0 - 97.70 area
Support 1: 81.9 - 83.0 area
Support 2: major broken trend line
Consider these structure for pullback/breakout trading.
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WTI oil - Rumors about production cuts elevate the priceOver the past few days, rumors about the OPEC production cut started circulating in the market, with some suggesting the cut could be between 1 mil. bpd up to 1.5 mil. bpd. Subsequently, the price of WTI oil rallied above 83 USD.
This development comes in spite of OPEC's inability to reach its own production quotas and might temporarily lift the price of oil. However, at this point, we still remain relatively bearish on oil in the long term, with a price target of 70 USD.
Despite that, we will pay close attention to the rhetoric of OPEC members about future (potential) production cuts. If the cartel proceeds with further cuts on the supply side, then it might force us to abandon our price target. We will update our thoughts soon.
Technical analysis - daily time frame
RSI and Stochastic are bullish. MACD is neutral. DM+ and DM- are bearish. Overall, the daily time frame is bullish.
Illustration 1.01
Illustration 1.01 shows the daily chart of USOIL and simple support/resistance levels.
Technical analysis - weekly time frame
RSI, Stochastic, and MACD are bearish. DM+ and DM- are bearish. Overall, the weekly time frame is bearish.
Please feel free to express your ideas and thoughts in the comment section.
DISCLAIMER: This analysis is not intended to encourage any buying or selling of any particular securities. Furthermore, it should not be a basis for taking any trade action by an individual investor. Therefore, your own due diligence is highly advised before entering a trade.
How Iran's nuclear deal could crush sure of victory oil bullsOPEC wants to support the oil price by reducing production. At the same time, we hear from Iran that the nuclear agreement talks are progressing, if the talks are a success, in the near future Iran could again export oil to the wider world.
Last week we heard from the U.S. side that an agreement with Iran could not be reached. Today Iran has released a U.S. American (accused of spying) and yesterday announced that the talks in regards to the nuclear deal are (well) progressing and they could soon access their sanctioned funds. Coincidences? There aren't. Looks like europe/U.S & Iran are very close to sign an agreement, which might surprise oil bulls. If Iran resumed large scale exports, all OPEC members would come under very heavy pressure.
I expect the price to rise until a potential iran nuclear agreement is forged, and if forged, leading to a potential oversupply of oil and an avoid of recession (global/europe)
Disclaimer: The information mentioned in my post should be taken with a grain of salt. They are only my personal opinion and do not form facts. They are also not a call or recommendation to open trades, do trades or close positions.
#BRENT update - Breakout confirmed, goes to $101Hi guys! 👋🏻
🔔 Brent crude price was squeezed in a descending triangle, and a breakout from the triangle was expected, so it happened as seen on the chart
🔔 Brent crude price is traded at $91 trying to hit the key resistance of $91.60 up ahead.
🔔 I do anticipate the price to slow down a bit when reaching the aforementioned resistance, however the path to $101 stays clear.
🔔 Opec+ will cut production by 1M, which is 3.4% of the current daily production volume.
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Energy holding onThe DXY normalization is far too good. Make good use of it, and make improvements on it, as you must. The accuracy, in even such long timeframes, is incredible. For the retracements, the magnet tool was used, and the retracement is in fib scale. Therefore nothing was placed by chance.
Also look at the short-term accuracy.
Look at the standard SPGSCI. It is lying a little.
I have to admit that on the standard chart of SPGSCI, the 2.618 retracement from 1990 to 1998, points at almost the precise top of 2008.
So I guess when the standard retracements don't work, transform them. Or perhaps the recent extreme change in dollar value justifies normalization.
The point is: the standard price of SPGSCI, as well as USOIL and other commodities, make sense when talking about the US economy. The 2008 peak in oil was not a worldwide energy crisis.
The balance changes now, when the price of commodities are defined from the worldwide economy strength. With China now being a substantial energy user, not just the US.
The DXY transformation just takes into account an average world currency price. An imaginary "world currency" (coming soon in your favorite color)
Tread lightly, for this is hallowed ground.
-Father Grigori
Fuel SeasonalityAs someone who works in industry with large consumption of diesel fuel, we are very concerned and interested in fuel.
This past few weeks while gasoline is dropping, diesel fuel is in a price similar to the beginning of Ukraine war. So when will prices go back to "normal"?
As you can see in the included image, relative price between gasoline and diesel is very consistent in the way it moves every year. With a very similar and consistent variance. Diesel remained abnormally high between August of 2008 to January of 2009, bottoming in May 2009. This is apparent in the seasonality chart I made. Because of the extreme prices gasoline reached during the summer, the problem for diesel will continue for the entire winter. A single event (Ukraine war) caused a price chaos that lasts a year. Who knows what extremities will occur if, god forbid, a scaled war begins.
PS. I have made statistics regarding DJI, kWh, NG1!, RB1!/USOIL, and RB2!-RB1!
Maths and statistics are beautiful. This is not trading advice, this is art.
Tread lightly, for this is hallowed ground. -Father Grigori
The most accurate retracementRB1! by itself doesn't like to follow retracements. That is because it is not normalized with dollar strength. After all, gasoline consumption is highly affected by the strength of the average salary.
Also take a look at where we landed. Crude and its products show strength during the last weeks. The point we are testing is not a random point, as the standard RB1! would tell you. The point we stopped is the 1.272 retracement from the 2008 high to the 2020 bottom. We surpassed it by a mere $0.012 as we had, to initiate a sell-off. Now prices maybe have landed.
Also compare this with the standard RB1! value, to see the tremendous difference. I always found it annoying for commodities (amongst other stuff) not to follow accurately such retracements. With this transformation it is very neat. It's like seeing behind the curtain.
PS. Not everything is money. These charts are beautiful, admire them for what they are. It is nice when maths show some incredibly accurate results. I avoid giving trading advice because maths is more beautiful than useless colorful pieces of paper, and round pieces of metal.
PS2. Even if I show these charts, I don't always know what they mean. And I don't have to know, or figure out what they mean.
PS3. Don't fall for the "go long" or "go short" trap. A successful trader must have a probabilistic thinking, and have a plan for ANY outcome.
Tread lightly, for this is hallowed ground. -Father Grigori
USOIL WILL CONTINUE THE BEARISH MOMENTUM AND REVISIT $64 SUPPORTCheck out the trade plan for USOIL today based on the technical analysis. Hope this analysis is useful, make sure to hit the thumbs and also follow my tradingview profile for future updates. Thank you!
USOIL formed a pullback after the breakout happened on Key Level 1. Here I am expecting another respected price action and a swing down to revisit and complete the structure with the level at the $64 supported area.
USOIL GAPPED UPsince market opened oil gapped up into a bearish order block on the 1hr, 4hr, and also daily. The trendline also still holding under the last lower high so even more confluence im looking for a nice move down it could retrace after filling that low or just keep pushing down since bias is still overall bearish
Crude Oil Weekly Forecast Analysis 3-7 Oct 2022 Crude Oil Weekly Forecast Analysis 3-7 Oct 2022
We can see that currently the volatility is around 7.05% for this week, decrising from the 7.4% from the last week.
Currently there is around 29% that the asset is going to close either above or below the channel:
TOP 87
BOT 75
The current volatility percentile is around 90th, placing us in a very risky environment. With this situations in general the market moves:
AVG weekly bull candle = 4.25%
AVG weekly bear candle = 5.36%
With this mind, from the opening price it would situate us around
TOP 84.6
BOT 76.74
At the same time, there is currently a 70% that we will touch the ath of previous weekly candle of 83,
and there is a 30% that we will touch the low of the previous week of 76.25
From the technical analysis point of view:
The majority of moving averages ranging from 10 to 200, are currently around 26% agreement that the market is in a bearish trend ( the current price is above those moving averages)
From the distribution of the candles, for this year we had 47% bearish weekly candles.
Crude Oil (WTI) Short Trade Explained 🛢️
WTI Crude Oil opened with a nice gap today.
What we know about the gaps is the fact that 80% of the time they are filled.
To trade this gap, watch 81.3 - 81.5 horizontal support.
It is a neckline of a double top pattern.
Wait for 1H candle close below that, then short on a retest.
Initial target will be 79.8
If the price sets a new high, the setup will be invalid.
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Crude Oil (WTI) Your Detailed Trading Plan For Next Week 🛢️
Hey traders,
As I predicted, WTI Crude Oil has perfectly respected a major falling trend line and dropped from that.
We already caught 2 very nice winners shorting that.
To catch a bearish continuation, watch 79.15 - 80.90 horizontal neckline of a head and shoulders pattern.
We should wait for 4H candle close below that to confirm the breakout.
Then shorting on a retest, we will expect a bearish continuation to 76.5.
If the price respect a yellow zone and breaks a trend line, the setup will be invalid.
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What Does This Say About the Future?As many of you know, this week Warren Buffet increased his stake in the oil and natural gas company Occidental Petroleum Corp. (OXY).
Warren Buffett’s holding company Berkshire Hathaway now owns about 21% of the company.
In light of Warren Buffet's purchase, I analyzed the chart of OXY to see what he or his analysts might be seeing. As I'll explain below, what I found was concerning for multiple reasons.
This is the yearly chart of the entire price history of OXY. Each candle represents the price action for one year.
It is important to log-adjust your charts in general, but especially when analyzing higher timeframes. Below is a log-adjusted chart.
Since OXY is also a dividend-paying stock, analyzing its history over such a long time period over which it has paid dividends means we need to adjust for dividends as well. Below is a dividend-adjusted chart.
Now that the chart has been properly adjusted, we can do our chart analysis.
Looking at this chart, I immediately noticed that OXY is about to undergo a major Fibonacci extension. I will explain more below.
First, I applied Fibonacci levels from the lowest low to the highest high.
You can see my Fibonacci levels applied in the chart above (I hid the 0.5 level because that is actually not a Fibonacci level).
I noticed that, during the COVID-19 Pandemic, OXY's price bounced off of the golden ratio and then proceed to move much higher. See the below chart.
In my experience, this type of price action is rare and usually proceeds what is called an "S-curve jump". Without getting too deep into higher-level mathematics behind S curves, in short, an S-curve jump basically means a major breakout may occur on the time frame in which it appears. Following an S-curve jump, prices can move much higher. Since this particular jump is occurring on a high timeframe, be mindful that the move can seem slow, and there can even be periods of weeks or months of declines even though a breakout on the yearly timeframe is underway. Perhaps this is why Warren Buffet accumulated so many shares of this company. Warren Buffet is long-term investor and so investing based on the yearly chart is most consistent with a multi-decadal investment strategy like his.
To help you visualize what an S-curve jump looks like I've illustrated it below. This chart is purely illustrative and is not my actual price projection for OXY (it's impossible to accurately predict price so far into the future).
As shown above, price jumps from one S-curve to another, leading to significant increases in price.
Interestingly, the second S-curve often starts at the golden ratio retracement of the previous S-curve.
Once the price successfully jumps an S-curve, the price increases can be monumental. Actually, it is during the period after price jumps an S-curve that most people get wealthy from their investment. It's how 'millionaires are created'. However, price tends to falter at each successive Fibonacci extension. Below I've highlighted an example of this using Bitcoin which moves almost entirely based on Fibonacci extensions and retracements.
Notice how following a perfect golden ratio retracement, Bitcoin moved up to nearly the next Fibonacci extension level before collapsing back down a Fibonacci level. You can see clearly that price has been hovering right on a Fibonacci level in recent months.
Going back to OXY, we can use a regression channel to try to validate the hypothesis that price may move much higher in the coming year(s). See the chart below.
A regression channel merely measures how far above or below its mean an asset is currently priced. Each blue line represents a standard deviation from the mean. We can see that OXY's price recently reached its mean (the red line) before retracing back down. Similar to retracement after reaching Fibonacci extensions, it is common for price to retrace some of its move each time it hits a higher standard deviation.
What's noteworthy is that although OXY's price has come all the way back up near its all-time high, the regression channel shows that this level is now merely the price's mean. See the below chart.
This suggests that, from a mean regression perspective, OXY's price can rise much higher before becoming as overextended as it was the last time it was priced at this level.
If we conclude that OXY's price is poised to go much higher, what does this say about the future? What might spiraling energy prices say about the Federal Reserve's, and other central banks', ability to fight inflation? By buying OXY while the Fed is trying to fight inflation, is Warren Buffet fighting the Fed? What might higher energy prices say about supply issues in the long term? Might higher energy prices reflect a prolonged period of deglobalization, or perhaps, something worse like geopolitical conflict? What might the consequences of higher energy prices be for climate change? Will higher energy prices incentive more investment in alternative energy options like solar, wind, nuclear and hydrogen?
One thing is for certain: The scope of monetary easing that we saw over the past couple of decades is unprecedented in history, and it has created an asset bubble that is unfathomable. I will leave you with two additional charts. One shows how low U.S. GDP growth has been over the past couple of decades, and yet how high its stock market has climbed due to monetary easing.
How do you soft land a stock market that's risen into the stratosphere? By pushing it gently to the surface of the moon.
Brent: Hang on! 🐻Bulls and bears are competing for preeminence, and both of them have gained the upper hand now and then. In the long run, we expect the bears to win this battle, though, and to drag Brent to the green zone between $77.10 and $42.16, where it should finish wave III in pink. After a short countermovement to complete wave IV in pink, Brent should enter the blue zone between $66.48 and $59.58, which is enclosed in the green zone and where wave V in pink and wave 3 in blue should end. Another countermovement should then lead Brent upwards again before it should dive into the green zone once more to finally conclude the overarching downwards movement. However, there is a 32% chance that the bulls could be stronger and drag Brent above the resistance at $95.76, which would then result in a detour until the next mart at $105.42 before the bears can take charge again.
$UKOIL - Production cuts will pump it to $101Hi guys! 👋🏻
🔔 Surprisingly low US inventories data supported a short-term uptrend of Brent crude, comforting the price to hit $90 this week.
🔔 OPEC+ meeting scheduled on October 5 will be on the watch, as the cartel suggest a production cut of 100,00 barrels per day (bpd).
🔔 Brent once again retested the upper edge of the descending triangle, although the bullish run is yet to be confirmed. The confirmation is set under a breakout from the wedge and closing of the price above $91.60. If that is confirmed, then we expect the price to move further to $98 and $101.
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CRUDE OIL (WTI) Time to Sell?! 🛢
Hey traders,
Update for WTI Crude Oil:
the price finally retested the broken neckline of a descending triangle on a daily.
On an hourly chart, the market formed a double top formation and broke its neckline then.
It looks to me that WTI will drop soon.
Goals: 80.3 / 79.3
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