Oil is bouncing once again in the longer-term downtrend. Will this attract longer-term sellers once again or is it finally time for the bulls to take charge?
WTI Crude Oil (USOil): 4-Hour
WTI Crude Oil CFD: 4-Hour Chart by TradingView
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On the 4-hour chart above, we can see prices are in a clear down trend, going back to the end of September when oil reached $95.00 a barrel. Who remembers how much fun that was when filling up the gas tank?!
But a the moment, oil is finding a bid after making a bottom around the $72.50 handle, and it looks like the bulls are likely to get the market back up to what looks like a confluence of several technical arguments.
The $80.00 – $82.00 area is where falling simple moving averages, a falling ‘highs’ trendline, and a broken support-turned-potential-resistance meet. We can also see the Stochastic indicator signaling potentially overbought conditions in the short-term.
Technical traders may be placing there orders there to play there biases, and if we see bearish reversal patterns there, then the downtrend has a pretty good chance of staying alive.
For you oil bulls out there, that same area is the one to watch for a potential long play. If the market can sustain a break above all of the likely short orders waiting there, odds are that more bulls may show, again depending on the fundamental drivers at that time.
So, that’s the area to watch out for bias confirmation before considering a long or short risk management strategy, but what are your thoughts on oil this week? Are you leaning bullish or bearish and why?
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