I’m not going to draw any fancy lines on the chart but a glance at the monthly oil chart stands out because of the looming mirror image from April 2020, when prices went deeply negative only to leave a largely unchanged candle. This time it’s a different geopolitical event but much of the same look
Technical Analysis
The price of WTI crude oil futures is settling at $99.27. That is down -$1.01 or -1.01%. The high price today reached $101.75 while the low extended to $97.78. A week ago today, the price closed at $113.90. The decline of $14.63 represents a tumble of -12.84% for the week. the high for the week
The major indices are closing higher after a late session surge take the Dow and S&P toward the highs and reverse declines in the NASDAQ index. The major indices snapped a two day decline. The Russell 2000 index was the biggest gainer today. The final numbers are showing: Dow industrial average up 139.92 points or
The NZDUSD has been trading above and below its near converged 100/200 hour MAs at 0.6938 area. The current price is trading at 0.6930 – below those two key moving average levels. However, adding some caution is that the price has been trading above and below those MAs over the last 10-11 trading hours after
The price of the USDJPY has been down for 3 consecutive days, but the month of March saw the USDJPY have the largest range for a calendar month since March 2020 – the start of the pandemic lockdown in the US. In March 2020, the low to high trading range was 1053 pips. This month
The EURJPY has been trending to the upside since bottoming on March 7 at 124.374. The pair peaked on Monday at 137.53 for a gain of 1315 pips over the course of 16 trading days. Since then, the price has traded up and down. Yesterday did close marginally higher. Today is marginally lower but off
The Nasdaq index is trading down over 220 points on the day or -1.52% at 14395. The index is off the low for the day but moving back to the downside as the day works toward the close. The low for the day reached 14383.45. Looking at the daily chart, the low for the day
The USDCAD yesterday moved above it’s 100 hour MA (blue line). That was the first break of the MA since March 15. The price break saw the pair move up to the next key MA level at the 200 hour MA (green line). That MA did hold resistance and buyers turned back to sellers. The
The Nasdaq index is currently trading up 234 points or 1.63% at 14500. The high price reached 14591 so far. The index is working on its eight day higher in 11 trading days. Since bottoming on March 14, the index is up over 16%. The index is still 11.22% away from its all-time high reached
The Nasdaq has moved to a new session high and in the process is pushing closer to the 50% midpoint of the move down from the all time high. That midpoint comes in at 14383.79. The high price has reached 14308.82. A move above that level is a step in a more bullish direction. On
The AUDUSD broke below the 100 hour MA for the first time since March 16, and the break sent the pair from 0.7491 to the session low at 0.7466. That will was just above the swing lows from Thursday’s trade at 0.74656. There are now 3 lows on the hourly chart at that level over
The USDJPY continues to run to the upside. The pair is now approaching the 122.00 level. The high prices reach 121.965 so far. Moving above the 122.00 level and staying above would push the price toward the higher extremes on the weekly chart (see earlier post HERE). There may be some sellers against that 122.00
The USDJPY has moved up 13 the last 14 trading days and in the process has seen a move higher of 740 pips. Yield differentials between the US and the Japan rate has been a big contributor to the move higher (see post here). The same is true for the EURJPY and the Euro and
The USDCAD is working on its eight straight day to the downside (stronger CAD). Adam Button talks to the fundamentals that are underlying the move into the loonie in his interview here. Technically, the move to the downside has been seen a bias shift to the downside on the daily chart that started earlier in
The JPY continues to get hit with the USDJPY, and the JPY crosses all pushing higher The USDJPY is now trading above the 122.00 level and has reached a high at 122.12. The price is now moving into the upper extreme area (see post here) The EURJPY has now moved above its 2021 high at
At the end of last week, I made the case for Canadian dollar gains, and I spoke about that on BNNBloomberg on Monday as well. It’s been a great week for that trade, with the loonie up every day. I would be cautious here. A close below 1.2500 would be the lowest this year but
AUD/JPY is modestly lower today in what would be the first daily decline after eight straight days of gains but it’s the weekly chart where I want to focus. It’s gone parabolic, adding 4% this week in the eighth consecutive week of gains. The rally this week blew through the 2017 high and is one
Guess what? The 200 hour MA held resistance in the EURUSD . Surprise. Surprise. The 200 hour MA (green line) has acted as a barometer for bullish and bearish going back to last week. There have been a number of moves above and below the moving average, but the price tends to react to it