Saturday, November 16, 2013

Tech musings Commodities




The first chart I want to discuss is that of crude oil. Crude prices have seen almost a 20% correction in last two months and are currently trading at 94 levels.  In my last post on crude oil on 10th August 2011 I wrote that, “Lastly crude oil has broken out the consolidation pattern it was in since April 2011. I have not expected an upside breakout of this triangle. If crude oil persist above 95 levels than we will see sharp up move in prices. Although my gut feeling is that the breakout is a whipsaw and crude prices should fall below 100 USD before year ends given that there are no unfavorable geo-developments.

Crude oil moved up to 115 levels and has crashed to 93 from there. I still believe that crude oil will close the year below 100 USD level and see a sharp correction in next year. The target for Crude stays at 70 dollar.






I have been bullish on gold and in my last post on 14th September  I wrote, If we look at the given chart of gold we can see that gold has done its 50% retracement at 1307 levels and I expect gold to start a new upmove from these levels. Traders can buy gold at CMP keeping 1270 as stop loss and 1485 as target.”

Since then gold has been range bound and had not shown any tendency to move up. Although my stop loss has not been trigged as of now, nevertheless the probability of an up-move has diminished greatly for both gold and silver. All long trades on gold should keep 1270 as a strict stop loss on a weekly closing basis. If gold moves above 1350 it may go to 1425 and 1475 levels.

On the contrary, If gold fails to move up in the current month than it is highly likely that we will see a sharp downside in gold and it may fall towards 1000 USD levels.








Similarly traders should keep a stop loss of 20.50 in silver on weekly closing basis. If silver falls below this level there is a high probability that we will see a sharp down move in prices towards 14 – 16 dollar level.

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