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USOIL I Think We're Getting Close - Time & Price AnalysisMy best guess is the green highlighted area shouldn't be viewed as a "Bounce" zone. Instead, I think this will be the area where accumulation will take place. It'll take a few weeks and a few failed breakouts, so don't worry about missing the bottom. You'll have a few opportunities. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I've been working on "Time" more than "Price" for the last year. I got tired of pussy-footing around in my analysis; "It should bounce around this level, maybe it will maybe it won't." Time is much more elusive than price, but I'll give it a go: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Price: Between $49.00 and $46.00 a sideways to slightly lower accumulation zone will form in this range. (Typically don't like to give such a wide range ($3) but we just moved $27 in 7 weeks so giving myself some wiggle room) Time: From today (Nov 23rd) until Dec 15th, it's likely oil will be in accumulation as it moves sideways to slightly lower. By December 13th we should see some serious signs of a reversal. The reversal should last at a minimum until Jan 11th. Prior Oil Posts:
TVC:USOIL
by RHTrading
THE WEEK AHEAD: XOP, OIH, USO, XLE, UNG, EEMEarnings With >70 Rank/>50 Implied: No underlyings with highly liquid options with earnings announcements in the next week. With single names with earnings announcements in the rear view mirror, we're looking at earnings starting up again in the January cycle; I'd rather just play those closer to the announcement, rather than get caught up in a volatility expansion (e.g., CAT (84/40) with earnings in 53 vs. January opex 47 days until expiration). Exchange-Traded Funds With >50 Rank/>35 Implied XOP (81/44) OIH (81/43) USO (81/57) XLE (75/27) UNG (75/88) Notes: As you can see by the pictured setup, XOP is at the bottom of its 52-week range. With OPEC talks right around the corner (and likely jawboning to ensue), I'm slightly enamored with a bullish assumption setup here as compared to a nondirectional premium selling play, even though there's premium to be had (the Jan 18th 29/37 short strangle's paying 1.09 with a 70% probability of profit). Last week, I entered into a similar setup in OIH, (See Post Below), since it's gotten the sledge hammer to a greater degree than the rest of the petro-sensitive exchange traded funds. In any event, here are the metrics for the pictured play: Max Loss on Setup/Buying Power Effect: 4.02 debit/contract; Max Profit on Setup: 1.98/contract; Break Even on Setup: 33.02 vs. for a 6-wide, BE at 33.02 vs. 32.81 spot; Debit Paid/Spread Width Ratio: 67%. Look to roll the short call aspect out on significant loss of value (usually 50% max) and to take profit at 50% max (.99/$99 per contract). UNG has been pesky. I've looked at getting into a bearish assumption, seasonality-related short setup, but every time I look, the markets are stupid-wide, making it unattractive from an entry/exit perspective. Given its high rank/implied, however, it might be amenable to a bearishly skewed oppositional setup if you're willing to do a bit of price discovery and not settle for sub-mid price nonsense: the Jan 18th 27/46 short strangle is paying 2.92 at the mid with a net delta metric of =25.44 and break evens at 24.08 and 48.92, which covers a fairly huge swath of the 52-week range. If you're willing to spend a little more time in the trade, the April 18th 26/46 pays 4.91 at the mid, is =29.44 delta, and has break evens of 21.09 and 50.91, although I could see the reluctance to hang yourself out there undefined given the movement it's experienced over the last several weeks. Broad Market Exchange-Traded Funds Ranked By 30-Day Implied EEM 26 QQQ 24 IWM 20 SPY 18 EFA 18 Notes: The EEM Jan 18th 41 short straddle is paying 2.69; the ~30 delta, 39/43 short strangle pays 1.15. I've been working it via double diagonal with a short straddle body, just so I don't have to leg into and out of the long strangle aspect and to budget buying power devoted to the trade. (See Post Below).
AMEX:XOP
by NaughtyPines
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Long Crude Oil For a BounceFor the first time in a long time crude oil is showing some strength. Beyond coming down to the psychological '50' level, crude oil is facing an OPEC meeting next week on Thursday. There is good reason to believe that output will be slowed and traders will likely position themselves ahead of that. You never want to catch a falling knife unless you have good reason to believe that it's done falling. In this case, I believe we do. Get long oil here at 52.10 with a stop at 50.20. I believe we won't run into resistance until around $56, but likely it is safer to take profits in the $55 range.
FX:USOILLong
by TradeWithAdam
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DBC - More Odd Charts - Commodity Drop Underway?Crude oil has been getting absolutely walloped for weeks now, having lost over a third of its value recently. Looking at the chart of USOIL I recently posted, it seems to me we are definitely primed for a bounce. The bounce will ultimately fail, but we’re really, really oversold at this point. One thing I noticed is that the commodity ETF, symbol DBC, has actually cracked the channel which has been in place for years. Like I said above, I think oil will bounce, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see DBC hit resistance in the form of that now-broken channel. DBC is the basket of commodities
AMEX:DBCShort
by RHTrading
LONG UGA @ $28.50 for Gasoline Futures bounce from $1.64Gasoline Futures (RBOB Gasoline Futures) likely counter trend bounce here off 200weekSMA support at $1.66 to reclaim long-term moving average support of 50monthSMA at $1.70, then rally to test 100weekSMA resistance at $1.80. Technical Analysis: - Gasoline Futures (RBOB Gasoline Futures) now testing long-term support of 200weekSMA at $1.66. - $1.66 also strong price support from Feb 2018 for potential double bottom pattern - Daily & Weekly RSI extremely oversold - Daily MACD record lows - 50monthSMA long-term support sitting at $1.70 to continue uptrend from 2016 lows - Potential bottom hammer candle on hourly chart today at $1.66 Fundamental Analysis: Over recent weeks, we have seen an almost perfect bearish storm in the Crude Oil market that sent the price of futures from a high of $76 to low of $61, a decline of about 19% in less than one month. Rising production, increasing inventories, a strong dollar, concerns over trade, and the realization that the sanctions on Iran include some exceptions, all led the price of the energy commodity lower in a dramatic corrective move. These factors have had a greater impact on its bi-product Gasoline, which is also undergoing a seasonal bearish period during the winter months. However, we feel this move has been overextended to the downside as there are still 3 fundamental reasons why oil is close to low and could spark a counter trend rally in Gasoline. - Turmoil in the Middle East could result in a decrease in production and rapid price increase - OPEC expected to cut production at their bi-annual meeting Dec. 6th - Pullback of USD from highs due to US election results could relieve some of the bearish weight on commodity prices - Demand for the energy commodity remains strong with increasing population and rising heating oil cracks
NYMEX:RB1!Long
by CashFlo_Trading
THE WEEK AHEAD: NVDA, AMAT EARNINGS; MJ, USO, SLV, EEMAs of Friday close, NVDA and AMAT appear to have the volatility metrics I'm looking for in earnings-related volatility contraction play (>70 rank/>50 implied). NVDA (70/67) announces on Thursday after market close. The iron condor pictured here pays 1.73 credit with break evens wide of the expected move. AMAT (68/48) announces on Thursday after market close, with the Dec 21st 31/37 short strangle paying 1.64 (50% take profit of .82) and the 34 short straddle paying 3.89 (25% take profit of .97). On the exchange-traded front: USO (100/35), SLV (99/22), EEM (85/26), XOP (76/38), and OIH (75/36) round out the top symbols by rank, with USO, XOP, and OIH being no surprise given the beating oil has take over the past several weeks. Although I am mostly selling premium in XOP here, I could see also taking a bullish directional shot in OIH, which has broken through long-term horizontal support; XOP and XLE have yet to close in on the bottom of their long-term ranges. Alternatively, I could see doing a similar, bullish assumption play in one of the higher volatility petro underlyings that have earnings in the rear view mirror: OXY (75/30), COP (74/33), or BP (70/36), for example. ASHR (74/33) is worth a passing mention here, but if I'm going to play China, it's going to be via the more liquid FXI (65/28). MJ (--/64)* is also worth an honorable mention, with the more recognizable cannabis underlyings -- CRON, CGC, and TLRY -- all announcing earnings this week. The currently unfortunate thing about MJ is that it's not getting decent volume yet, so options liquidity isn't the best for those who'd rather not be on the single name roller coaster. As far as the majors are concerned, some volatility came out of the broad market post-mid-term elections: SPY 30-day's now at 15.3%; QQQ at 24.6%; and IWM at 22.8%, so if I'm going to add broad market short premium here, it's going to be in the Q's and/or RUT/IWM. Lastly: UNG. Last week marked a kind of WTF, weather forecast-related spike in natty, with UNG printing a new 52-week high. I was previously looking at 27.5 as an area of interest for short with 31-ish being the next stop, but thought November was too early in the natural gas seasonality cycle to be putting on a short play (usually, a downward put diagonal (See Post Below)* with the back month in April or later). Now that it's whipped through 31 in three seconds flat, I'm going to be patient here and see if it grinds higher throughout December, even though forecasts are generally calling for a "meh" winter temperature-wise. * -- It doesn't currently have a 52-week rank, since it hasn't been around that long. ** -- Naturally, that setup's no longer good. I'll post a revised setup here shortly.
NASDAQ:NVDA
by NaughtyPines
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OIL - Selling premium into high IVR-Short Strangle -16 Delta -35 DTE -100% IVR -$1000.00 Credit This is a good high IVR premium selling opportunity. Due to oils sharp drop in price in a relatively short amount of time has caused implied volatlity to skyrocket. My straddle has some positive delta bias because I think a relief rally is due so if we get a pop in oil prices it gives my upside a little more breathing room. Although I don't believe a relief rally will amount to much other than a short rally before carving out new lows.
NYMEX:CL1!
by krugman87
USO! when oil starts the bear move it's one of the easiest tradeI've been doing well buying puts once the corrections are developing. Usually about 3-4 weeks out to allow the correction to develop and so I dont get slammed by theta decay. Now eventually if we're in an impulse to go down, we will need to see a bigger correction to develop. Will we get a few more pushes down before that happens, or will it start right now? Either way I'm looking to purchase another put sometime within the next week (as long as we dont breakout past the downtrend line, this will signal a deeper correction/ reversal depending on how price behaves after that) Longterm view in the comments. (not confirmed yet, just looking that way)US thanks for looking, and trade responsibly!
AMEX:USOShort
by adambiers
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