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Natural Gas: Identifying a Seasonal Floor

By Dimitris KontoulisCommoditiesJan 29, 2023 02:58AM ET
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Natural Gas: Identifying a Seasonal Floor
By Dimitris Kontoulis   |  Jan 29, 2023 02:58AM ET
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Natural Gas Futures on the Nymex had a negative week before closing 5% lower than the previous one at $2.85. EIA reported another bearish draw for this time of year of 91 Bcf in working underground stocks for the week ended January 26. Total inventory is currently at 2,729 Bcf, 4.1% higher y/y and 4.9% above the 5-year average. Both percentages have recently been on spectacular ascend.

All our shorts and Puts positions have been in the money for the past six months, and we now feel we need to identify the upcoming seasonal floor on time. We have already tested some buying operations on this latest MACD divergences. The price of the American benchmark must average $3.50 this year to be friendly.

EIA recently put this number at $4.7, but I still believe this is too optimistic for 2023; however, it confirms that we need to expect the floor at $2.85 for the April contract. March was trading at $8.00 when we correctly predicted a $3.50 direction toward April. That was back in June ‘22.

Of course, we need to proceed with surgical accuracy for the coming two months as the downtrend needs to exhaust smoothly amid the shoulder season, and the market will become a little shallower. Aggressive spikes are always probable on the near-term charts on momentum.

U.S. macro data and the Dollar against majors must be monitored routinely. Daily, 4 hours, 15min MACD and RSI are pointing to entry areas.

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Zaheer Khalfan
Zaheer Khalfan Jan 30, 2023 12:23PM ET
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Very manipulated commodity IMO. Bears want to short NG to the ground. I wont be surprised if they take it all the way down to 10 cts. The futures price means nothing to producers. They still get top $$ for their fracked gas.
Joseph Yazbeck
Joseph Yazbeck Jan 30, 2023 12:23PM ET
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Actually producers get less than what the futures are paying and they are mandated by the contracts they sold under, which is why they will stop producing as they fulfill there contracts and gave to forge new ones.
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keep up the great work
 
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