Market Overview: Crude Oil Futures The market formed a weekly Crude Oil pullback to the middle of the trading range on the weekly chart. The bulls want a retest of the April 12 high after the current pullback and the bull trend line to act as support. The bears want the 20-week EMA and the bear trend line to […]
Weak Crude Oil Breakout
Market Overview: Crude Oil Futures The weekly chart formed a weak Crude Oil breakout from the small expanding triangle. The bulls want the 20-week EMA or the bull trend line to act as support. They want a failed breakout below the bull trend line. The bears need to create follow-through selling trading far below the […]
Weekly Crude Oil Tight Trading Range
Market Overview: Crude Oil Futures The market formed a weekly Crude Oil tight trading range in the form of 4 overlapping candlesticks. The bears see the tight trading range simply as a sideways pullback and want another strong leg down. The bulls want the 20-week EMA or the bull trend line to act as support. […]
Crude Oil OO Pattern
Market Overview: Crude Oil Futures The weekly chart formed a Crude Oil OO pattern (outside-outside) which means the market is in breakout mode. Crude Oil is currently trading around the middle of the large trading range, which is an area of balance. The overlapping price action in the last 3 weeks also indicates that the market is in a tight trading range. Crude oil futures The […]
Crude Oil stalled
Market Overview: Crude Oil Futures Crude Oil stalled at the bull trend line in the last 2 weeks. The bears want at least another sideways to down leg, completing the third push down (wedge) with the first two legs being April 22 and May 8. The bulls want a reversal from a wedge (Apr 22, May 8, and May 15), […]
The Bears Need a Crude Oil Breakout
Market Overview: Crude Oil Futures The bears need a Crude Oil breakout below the bull trend line to increase the odds of the bear leg beginning. The bulls want a retest of the April 12 high after the current pullback, even if it forms a lower high. They want the 20-week EMA or the bull trend line to […]
Crude Oil Lower High
Market Overview: Crude Oil Futures The monthly chart formed a Crude Oil lower high in April. The bears want April to reverse back below the 20-month EMA and form a second leg sideways to down to retest the December low from a lower high major trend reversal (Apr 12). The bulls hope that the current sideways-to-down move is simply […]
Crude Oil Bull Channel
Market Overview: Crude Oil Futures The weekly chart formed a Crude Oil bull channel and a bull leg within a trading range. The bears see this week simply as a pullback and want at least a small second leg sideways to down. The bulls want a retest of the September 28 high after the current pullback. If […]
Crude Oil Pullback
Market Overview: Crude Oil Futures The weekly chart formed a Crude Oil pullback closing as a bear bar with a prominent tail below. The bears will need to create consecutive bear bars closing near their lows to convince traders that they are back in control. If the market trades lower, the bulls want the 20-week […]
Crude Oil Pullback?
Market Overview: Crude Oil Futures The weekly chart formed a Crude Oil pullback, closing as a bear doji following last week’s breakout above the bull channel. The bears want a failed breakout above the bull channel and a reversal from a wedge pattern. If the market trades lower (pullback), the bulls want the 20-week EMA […]
