Commodities Analysis & Opinion

It has been an eventful week for crude oil traders. On Wednesday, January 16th, the EIA revealed that inventories have decreased by 2.7 million barrels from the previous week. In the same time, it...

Near Term Bearish Gold Fundamentals Improving optimism is picking up as the U.S. and China appear to be moving closer to resolving their trade dispute. Growing momentum in the U.S. dollar, and rising...

Gold Gold prices have been slightly softer this week due mainly to a rebound in the US Dollar. Despite heavily delayed US news flow, due to the ongoing US government shutdown (now the longest in...

Our Adaptive Fibonacci modeling system is suggesting Crude Oil may have already reached very strong resistance levels just above $50 ppb. It is our opinion that a failed rally above $55 ppb will...

Brent crude oil edged north on Thursday, after it hit support near the psychological zone of 60.00, which currently coincides with the 200-EMA on the 4-hour chart. On the 9th of January, the price...

The U.S. natural gas trade has just gotten a lot trickier. It will not be another “polar vortex” year, say some traders. Correspondingly, there have been a lot less storage withdrawals for...

Commodities often provide an alternative to investing in stocks – and they have clearly discernible seasonal trends. Thus heating oil tends to be cheaper in the summer than during the heating...

In this article I detailed a fairly simple model for deciding whether to favor stocks or gold (at least with a portion of one’s investment capital). This model will turn bullish for gold (though...

Listen to my commentary on natural gas Outlook for January 18, 2019 click here. Disclaimer 1. This content is for information and educational purposes only and should not be considered as an...

The trajectory of gold should be improving as broader risk-off sentiment reignites across markets. However, given the preponderance of conflicting headlines ranging across a variety of major...

Crude oil prices were able to recover initial losses this week as the latest data from the Energy Information Administration showed a larger than forecast draw in stockpiles. The EIA data for the week...

Oil is stuck in the mud of politics and conflicting signals about supply and demand. The oil market is having a hard time getting anything going lately as bearish and bullish forces are keeping prices...

We see oil prices trending higher in 2019, with the view that OPEC+ cuts are sufficient to return the market to balance over 1H19. Meanwhile, the current price environment offers little incentive to...

While most oil traders focus on the big three producers of our day—Saudi Arabia, Russia and U.S. shale—we shouldn't ignore struggling producers. Missing supply from Mexico, Iran and...