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WTI Crude Oil and Natural Gas Forecast - 16 July 2018

By Christopher Lewis
Christopher Lewis has been trading Forex and has over 20 years experience in financial markets. Chris has been a regular contributor to Daily Forex since the early days of the site. He writes about Forex for several online publications, including FX Empire, Investing.com, and his own site, aptly named The Trader Guy. Chris favours technical analysis methods to identify his trades and likes to trade equity indices and commodities as well as Forex. He favours a longer-term trading style, and his trades often last for days or weeks.

WTI Crude Oil

The WTI Crude Oil market rallied on Friday, gaining 0.5% by the time the Americans were ready to call it a day. We are testing the 50 EMA and have seen support there so far. Beyond that, the $70 level has come into play, and offered support as well. However, we gave back quite a bit of the gains for the session, so it makes sense that we could continue to face a lot of trouble. The $75 level above has been massively resistive, so a break above that level is obviously a very bullish sign. Overall though, I think that the market will continue to sell in the short term. The uptrend line of course offers quite a bit of support as well, so I think that even though I would expect lower prices, or perhaps selling of a rally, it’s somewhat limited in its distance that it will travel.

Crude oil

Natural Gas

Natural gas markets initially tried to rally during the day on Friday but gave back 1.75% of value again. The market looks as if it is ready to break down below the $2.75 level, and perhaps drift down to the $2.70 level next, followed by the $2.60 level. This is a market that continues to see a lot of volatility, but at the end of the day we continue to see an oversupply of natural gas and of course a relatively strong US dollar. Both of these are working against the value of this market, and I think that it’s likely we will continue to see a bearish pressure. Beyond that, Piedmont Natural Gas announced during the trading session that they were going to build a huge storage project in North Carolina, which of course will add to oversupply.

Natural gas

Christopher Lewis
Christopher Lewis has been trading Forex and has over 20 years experience in financial markets. Chris has been a regular contributor to Daily Forex since the early days of the site. He writes about Forex for several online publications, including FX Empire, Investing.com, and his own site, aptly named The Trader Guy. Chris favours technical analysis methods to identify his trades and likes to trade equity indices and commodities as well as Forex. He favours a longer-term trading style, and his trades often last for days or weeks.

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