Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Exit from the $52-$54 range in either direction will show the way for Crude OilOriginal post

Any gold rally to $1.200 should be sold short. Given that 1.050 is the big target below, the risk/reward for shorting at current levels is not good enoughOriginal post

Crude oil approached the 13 DMA (51.91) support level on Thursday morning December 22, 2016, trading down to 52.08 before rallying to its high for the day at 53.19. Crude oil then consolidated around...

A gutsy trader has made a very large bet that oil prices will spike significantly in the medium to long term, according to some recent unusual options market activity.The $100 December 2018 call...

Last January Brent Crude completed an 81.4% correction off the record high of $146.08 reached in 2008 when it found a low at $27.13. Since then Brent has advanced as much as 111.9% as of the $57.50...

T’was the Energy Report before Christmas and OPEC is ready to cut, as they feel it is time to ease the great oil glut.It is a historic agreement and the market does care because their focus is...

XAU/USD prices on swing since last week between 1144.48 high and 1122.73 low. First gold prices collapsed on Fed rate hike 0.25%, second US economy received additional boost by positive Philly index...

A lack of clarity on how and when key provisions of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act will be fully implemented is leaving downstream businesses in limbo — many of whom...

On Tuesday, Brent dropped to the level of 54.50 (Fibonacci correction 23.6%, the middle line of Bollinger bands), but then, after American Petroleum Institute weekly data on oil reserves, which showed...

US Crude oil inventories rose 2.3 million barrels on Tuesday, shocking analysis forecasts of a 2.4 million barrels’ reduction. As a results the oil market finished the trading session in...

Current breakout to a new high and breakdown to the old price range levels for Crude OilOriginal post

Post for information purposes only: Only long-term short positions in gold are justified from a risk point of view, with target at 1.050 and stop at 1.170. Other than that the market is short-term...

Here is what I said about natural gas on 14th December. Here is the previous chart reproduced again: As expected, NG found the support in our expected support area (3.307-3.316) for fresh buying, and...

I thought it would be interesting to update this post, which was a fairly in-depth look at trading some pullbacks in copper. If you haven’t read it, go read it first, and if you read it a while...