WTI Crude Oil and Natural Gas Forecast - Monday, August 6

The WTI Crude Oil market initially fell during trading on Friday but found enough support near the $68 level to show its proclivity to stay within the consolidation area that we have seen over the last couple of weeks.

WTI Crude Oil

The WTI Crude Oil market initially fell during trading on Friday but found enough support near the $68 level to show its proclivity to stay within the consolidation area that we have seen over the last couple of weeks. At this point, I believe that the $67 level will continue to attract a lot of attention from buying participants, just as sellers will be found near the $70 level. Because of this, I don’t have any interest in being involved in this market until we reach one of those levels. It’s a lot of back and forth trading, but quite frankly that makes a great market to be involved in. If we broke above the $71 level, then the market could go much higher. However, if we break down below the $67 level, we also have an uptrend line to contend with.

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OIL

Natural Gas

Natural gas markets rallied again during the day on Friday, breaking above the vital $2.85 level. There is some resistance to be found above but I think ultimately this market will go hunting for the $3.00 level. I would not be a buyer here, I would wait for some type of pullback to take advantage of value. Currently, I believe that we are still very much stuck in a range, with the $3.00 level above being resistance, and the $2.70 level below being support. I also believe that those support and resistance levels are about $0.10 wide, so these lines on the chart are used as a guide only. We are more than likely going to see a continued push higher, at least until we get closer to the $3.00 level. At that point, I’m looking to sell.

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GAS

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