US Oil Trade Update – April ’19

*US Oil Market Breakdown and Analysis*

A lot of you might remember a previous blog post analysing the US Oil Commodity chart. It turns out that the bullish run on Oil was not yet over at that point and I took a fairly swift loss on my short positions last month which is no real drama. Losses are a part of trading and I cover this in another post relating to trading Oil and taking losses. If you have a good Reward:Risk ratio and fairly decent win rate then you will be able to overcome losses.

In my opinion, US Oil is now at an even better resistance level and with the over extended bullish run taking the price of a barrel from around $42 up to $64.50, there is now even more downside potential. So lets look at the current higher timeframe weekly price chart for WTI Crude Oil which is the one I use for analysis on the TradingView platform.

For those that don’t know, when I talk of US Oil I am talking about the WTI or West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil.

Technical Analysis:

The analysis is much the same as my last article but the price per barrel has climbed another $5. Price is now approaching and rejecting the bottom of the weekly price channel that was broken last year and which then led to the high move to the downside.

Last weeks candle also closed below the weekly 0.618 Fibonacci Retracement level with a lovely wick test of this zone and the daily channel trendline it was retesting. These are 3 nice confluences for an upcoming short position.

A break below the 4 hour EMA would be a very good sign that we could see a decline in the price of a barrel of US Oil.

Fundamental Analysis/News:

Demand for US Oil by China has been increasing recently and that is one of the reasons why the price per barrel has been pushing up steadily for the past few weeks. China is the worlds second largest user of US Oil. In simple terms, as demand increases so does price.

Another factor to the recent increase in the price of both WTI and Brent Crude Oil is the deal between OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ) and its allies which has lead to them limiting their production by 1.2 million barrels.

However, in my opinion there is a high chance of this production limit being removed when they next meet in June 2019. Supply can then increase and the price of US Oil should begin to fall. There are already talks of the possibility of Russia bringing an end to the deal.

How I plan to enter short positions:

My first option for entry would be on the 4hr timeframe if the 50 EMA is finally broken and fresh lower lows are made. I would then look to enter on the next lower high and a retest of the 4hr 50 EMA because it would then be acting as a dynamic resistance instead of supporting price like it has been over recent months.

This entry is shown on the chart below.

My second option for entering short positions would be a lot more conservative. Quite simply I would wait for a second weekly candlestick close below the weekly 0.618 Fibonacci retracement level and $64.50 resistance zone.

Two weekly rejections would be a strong sign that the price of US Oil has hit its limit and any further upside is not likely.

As always, I will post my actual entry on my profile on the TradingView platform and if you don’t already use it then I highly recommend you take a look.

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