I agree with you, it does seem that way sometimes here, that
everyone looking for a reversal instead of continuation. However
several of us were talking about yesterday about NG and a lot
depends on whether you're trading the futures or a stock/ETF. If
you're playing a stock then I've found it hard to trade short term
charts, ie 5-15 min on commodity based products, because they can
be rather volatile based on the underlying, so I tend to play 30min
- 4 hour charts if playing those because most commodities do tend
to trend for a few days generally unless you're at an inflection
point. SEe DGAZ 30min - could have bot when it broke the 50ma last
week for a really nice trade. But I'm not interested in buying it
here.
Natgas had a couple of opportunities to short today, see chart
below. However the first opp, when it took out yesterday's and
overnite low was right before inventory was released and no one
here is that crazy to hold into on oil or NG inventory number, that
was the big spike down to S2 at 10:30. The only other opp was on
re-test of S2 at 1:50 and notice no divergence up there, so you'd
basically been hoping.
As far as looking for a bounce, well it is down nearly 25% in
less than 10 days, historically going into Winter not the time you
want to be short though generally most the upward action comes
after Xmas. And it's sitting right on 200ma and regression line on
the 5 year weekly. Will they hold and it bounce from here, who
knows. But the point I'm trying to make there wasn't any really
good signals today for a short
NG moving into support area, which coincides with the S1 pivot.
UNG 19.37-19.42 pre-mkt. Not sure I'm liking this action
however with no major weather fronts moving in for a swing. Futures
may offer short term scalp here however if a shorter term chart
sets up. Next decent support area is on daily around 3.745 ish.
Pretty strong support area coming up soon. Has horizontal plus
regression line and 2 times standard deviation. Where I'm looking
to try some at white rectangle. Will start nibbling once it starts
getting close, Want to wait till it at least gets to 2 deviation
line tho. As you can see reacts well to all usually, rare when I
get combination of all 3.
Posted by racerick on 27th of Nov 2014 at 04:19 pm
For the US markets being closed, the futures and forex market
have made up for it. Oil, already weak prior to OPEC formal
announcement at 10 this am, plummeted to 67.75 before bouncing
slightly to 69.05 to close down almost $5 for the day. There is
some support on weekly charts between 65 and 68.50 but before
anyone gets too froggy on trying to catch a bottom, suggest that
you may want to re-visit the charts from 2008 when oil fell $70 in
about 3 months.
!0 year weekly chart
The USD had a good day and between it and oil price, made for a
huge gain against CAD. Realize that Canadian Oil typically sells
for about $15/ per barrel less than WTI, so falling oil prices are
really starting to have some effect on the Canadian economy,
especially the Western areas. Most of the newer projects in Canada
have costs in excess of $90/barrel and at $60 even the older
projects are marginal.
Natgas has been pulling back all day and closed sitting on some
support here at 4.23ish but short term trend has been down past 24
hours.
Index futures, after selling off some during the night,
recovered and closed at their highs.
Gold closed right at 1190 after trading most of past 24 hours in
a $10 range.
Posted by racerick on 21st of Nov 2014 at 03:48 am
Gold was just starting to perk up a little right before too.
Thought about trying a scalp short on usd at 88, right at R1 here
and high from yesterday, but think I'll go to bed instead, before I
do something stupid.
Posted by racerick on 14th of Nov 2014 at 08:14 am
Natgas perking up some today too. Trying to buy some UNG
pre-mkt. Darn greedy sellers won't take my offer. LOL
My idea of a perfect entry point on the futures- Came back down
and bounced right at my Horizontal line, up trend line, 1 deviation
line and 50ma. Unfortunately I was about 60 seconds too late.
Obviously should have chased it a little, but trying to be more
patient as I get older.
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PTX
Posted by racerick on 4th of Dec 2014 at 04:50 pm
Has had nice bounce off of 50ma past couple of days. It helps to keep watching some of these older trade ideas.
Natgas Trend
Anyone have any comments on nat gas?
Posted by racerick on 4th of Dec 2014 at 04:36 pm
I agree with you, it does seem that way sometimes here, that everyone looking for a reversal instead of continuation. However several of us were talking about yesterday about NG and a lot depends on whether you're trading the futures or a stock/ETF. If you're playing a stock then I've found it hard to trade short term charts, ie 5-15 min on commodity based products, because they can be rather volatile based on the underlying, so I tend to play 30min - 4 hour charts if playing those because most commodities do tend to trend for a few days generally unless you're at an inflection point. SEe DGAZ 30min - could have bot when it broke the 50ma last week for a really nice trade. But I'm not interested in buying it here.
Natgas had a couple of opportunities to short today, see chart below. However the first opp, when it took out yesterday's and overnite low was right before inventory was released and no one here is that crazy to hold into on oil or NG inventory number, that was the big spike down to S2 at 10:30. The only other opp was on re-test of S2 at 1:50 and notice no divergence up there, so you'd basically been hoping.
As far as looking for a bounce, well it is down nearly 25% in less than 10 days, historically going into Winter not the time you want to be short though generally most the upward action comes after Xmas. And it's sitting right on 200ma and regression line on the 5 year weekly. Will they hold and it bounce from here, who knows. But the point I'm trying to make there wasn't any really good signals today for a short
NG and UNG
Posted by racerick on 3rd of Dec 2014 at 08:18 am
NG moving into support area, which coincides with the S1 pivot. UNG 19.37-19.42 pre-mkt. Not sure I'm liking this action however with no major weather fronts moving in for a swing. Futures may offer short term scalp here however if a shorter term chart sets up. Next decent support area is on daily around 3.745 ish.
USD
Posted by racerick on 3rd of Dec 2014 at 07:44 am
USD has been trying to take out 89 past few hours. had nice little BO earlier. Some negative divergence on this last try.
UGAZ - UNG
Any thoughts on trades for UNG or UGAZ?
Posted by racerick on 2nd of Dec 2014 at 12:28 pm
Natgas chart
Pretty strong support area coming up soon. Has horizontal plus regression line and 2 times standard deviation. Where I'm looking to try some at white rectangle. Will start nibbling once it starts getting close, Want to wait till it at least gets to 2 deviation line tho. As you can see reacts well to all usually, rare when I get combination of all 3.
Some Interesting Oil Numbers
Posted by racerick on 30th of Nov 2014 at 11:57 pm
Oil production Costs
Amazing chart -scroll down - the breakeven price for every international oil company project through 2020
Been a wild day
Posted by racerick on 27th of Nov 2014 at 04:19 pm
For the US markets being closed, the futures and forex market have made up for it. Oil, already weak prior to OPEC formal announcement at 10 this am, plummeted to 67.75 before bouncing slightly to 69.05 to close down almost $5 for the day. There is some support on weekly charts between 65 and 68.50 but before anyone gets too froggy on trying to catch a bottom, suggest that you may want to re-visit the charts from 2008 when oil fell $70 in about 3 months. !0 year weekly chart
The USD had a good day and between it and oil price, made for a huge gain against CAD. Realize that Canadian Oil typically sells for about $15/ per barrel less than WTI, so falling oil prices are really starting to have some effect on the Canadian economy, especially the Western areas. Most of the newer projects in Canada have costs in excess of $90/barrel and at $60 even the older projects are marginal.
Natgas has been pulling back all day and closed sitting on some support here at 4.23ish but short term trend has been down past 24 hours.
Index futures, after selling off some during the night, recovered and closed at their highs.
Gold closed right at 1190 after trading most of past 24 hours in a $10 range.
You're right - USD just had big spike past 10 min.
Futures
Posted by racerick on 21st of Nov 2014 at 03:48 am
Gold was just starting to perk up a little right before too. Thought about trying a scalp short on usd at 88, right at R1 here and high from yesterday, but think I'll go to bed instead, before I do something stupid.
Futures
Posted by racerick on 21st of Nov 2014 at 03:34 am
Futures up strong. Asia was up and European markets up. ES just hit new high of 2057.75 - right at R1
USD/JPY
Posted by racerick on 20th of Nov 2014 at 02:10 am
Huge move up for it tonite
Z
Posted by racerick on 14th of Nov 2014 at 01:50 pm
Heck of a move today.
Gold keeps running off the top of my chart
Posted by racerick on 14th of Nov 2014 at 01:12 pm
Gold has some short term resistance here at 1175-1178
Posted by racerick on 14th of Nov 2014 at 10:45 am
If we can take this out might be off to the races
Biotechs getting hammered
Posted by racerick on 14th of Nov 2014 at 10:35 am
PBR gapped down
Posted by racerick on 14th of Nov 2014 at 09:52 am
This USD spike not helping our gold stock longs
Posted by racerick on 14th of Nov 2014 at 09:14 am
Scat, that was my favorite one - nice little inverse H&S
HTZ restating results (chart setup from last night). Likely to ...
Posted by racerick on 14th of Nov 2014 at 08:59 am
Good Retail sales number - big spike in USD
Posted by racerick on 14th of Nov 2014 at 08:33 am
Natgas
Posted by racerick on 14th of Nov 2014 at 08:14 am
Natgas perking up some today too. Trying to buy some UNG pre-mkt. Darn greedy sellers won't take my offer. LOL
My idea of a perfect entry point on the futures- Came back down and bounced right at my Horizontal line, up trend line, 1 deviation line and 50ma. Unfortunately I was about 60 seconds too late. Obviously should have chased it a little, but trying to be more patient as I get older.
Thanks for your help
Charts
Posted by racerick on 14th of Nov 2014 at 08:11 am
I like it when you're posting intraday charts, because if I'm busy trading several things sometimes I miss some of the easy ones.