Category: Commodities Trading
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Monday, June 07, 2010
Crude Oil and Copper Better Value Than Gold / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Dian_L_Chu
There have been some nice pullbacks in commodities like copper and crude (Chart 1), which should trend significantly higher by year-end. Both crude oil and copper tumbled after the Labor Department May jobs report and the fear about Europe heightened by the total clueless-about-financial-markets comment from Hungary’s Prime Minister.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Rhodium Commodity Trading Thoughts / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Ned_W_Schmidt
RHODIUM TRADING THOUGHTS is about timely and profitable trading of precious metals. We do not believe every turn in the market can be called. Our goal is that our recommendations should be profitable. Profits are the goals, not trades. Do not expect all recommendations to be profitable. No system can achieve that lofty goal.
Friday, May 21, 2010
Hurricane Season Crude Oil and Natural Gas Profits / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Sean_Brodrick
The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season officially starts on June 1. But smart traders are already gearing up. The Gulf of Mexico is responsible for 13% of the U.S. natural gas production (and 30% of its domestic crude oil production). A strong hurricane — or two — hitting in the wrong place could knock some of that production offline. And just the possibility of that happening could put a bid into energy prices when and if the first hurricanes form off the coast of Africa.
Earlier this month, two offshore production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico were shut as a safety precaution against the spreading oil slick from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. But that’s not the real threat.
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Friday, May 21, 2010
Sugar Testing Long Term 76.4% Support / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Seven_Days_Ahead
This year’s bear run has continued, with not much interruption. Earlier support points have fallen by the wayside but, now, a long term 76.4% retracement level has been reached, where the market is trying to find support…
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Friday, May 07, 2010
Copper Again Struggles at 76.4% Resistance / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Seven_Days_Ahead
In early 2010 the recovery in Copper (COMEX) was halted by a long term 76.4% retracement level, although the ensuing pullback proved short-lived. More recently this resistance has been tested again, and again the reaction has been negative.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
The Moment of Truth Video for Gold, Silver, Oil and SP500 / Stock-Markets / Commodities Trading
By: Chris_Vermeulen
It has been an exciting couple weeks with the stock market slowly forming its top before breaking down this week. I have been warning everyone keep tightening your protective stops and to keep new positions small because once prices start to sell off they will most likely drop like a rock.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, April 24, 2010
New Upleg for UltraLong Oil and Gas DIG ETF? / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The hourly candlestick chart of the ProShares Ultra Long Oil & Gas ETF (NYSE: DIG) shows the August rally period, which exhibits bullish form from the August 17 pivot low at 26.43 to the August 25 high at 31.60. After that rally, let’s notice that the pullback to 29.04 yesterday represents an almost exact 50% correction of the prior advance before yesterday afternoon’s initiation of a new upleg.
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Friday, April 23, 2010
Bullish Green Shoots in EUA Carbon Emissions / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Seven_Days_Ahead
For the best part of a year a consolidation pattern has been unfolding in the EUA (ICE ECX) contract, activity quietening down notably this year. Bears have proved unable to drive the market below key support and, now, an interesting upside break is in process.
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
Gold and Crude Oil Commodity Trading Report / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Chris_Vermeulen
In my last report I showed some cycles for the price of gold and how they were starting to roll over which would in turn put some selling pressure on both gold and silver this week.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Technical Trading Setups on Gold, Silver, Oil and Natural Gas ETF’s / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Chris_Vermeulen
This week has been playing out as expected with prices grinding their way higher and lots of sharp intraday sell offs and rallies which is indicative of a market getting toppy.
Seems like the masses feel as though they are getting left behind which is why we are starting to see the panic buying in the market (new money buying at these lofty overbought prices).
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Thursday, April 01, 2010
Cocoa Set For Temporary Recovery Phase / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Seven_Days_Ahead
This year’s bear move in Cocoa was clearly signaled at the time (please refer to our 28th Jan Update), and has steadily unfolded. Recently in the Commodity Specialist Guide we have been looking at an interesting support area and this looks likely to prompt a rebound period very soon.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Cotton Rally Falters within Fibonacci Area / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Seven_Days_Ahead
Earlier this year the game looked as though it was up for Cotton bulls, but fresh interest created new highs. A temporary halt has now been made, within a projection area that we had identified in the Commodity Specialist Guide, but can this develop into something more bearish?
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Weekly Commodity Analysis for Gold, Silver, Crude Oil and Natural Gas / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Last week was nothing special as stock market continued to drift higher on light volume and the Volatility Index (VIX) reaching a new multi year low. This mix of higher prices on light volume, multi year lows in the VIX and an overbought market paints a clear picture to a market technician – Be Ready for a Pullback!
Friday, March 19, 2010
What May Trigger A Spring in Wheat? / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Seven_Days_Ahead
Wheat prices have continued to drift back this year, recently approaching last year’s low. In the Commodity Specialist Guide we have stuck to a bearish outlook, but it is now useful to consider what would provide a s/term bull trigger.
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Metal Tiger… / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: HRA_Advisory
A sign of the times is seen in the deal the CME Group (CME-N), umbrella for the Chicago and NYMEX commodity bourses, is buying 90% of the Dow Jones index system from News Corporation (NWS-Q). The traditional newspaper business is having a tough go competing with the internet, which prompts the sale. One could argue this is another example of the commodities space taking up some of the ground opened by the past decade’s bear market for equities.
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Earthquake in Japanese Commodity Markets / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: OilPrice_Com
There has been some unusual action on the Japanese commodities markets that demands a comment.
I mentioned earlier this week that over the last two weeks the Japanese have revved up several new structured investment products tracking commodities.
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Friday, February 19, 2010
Further Losses Brewing in Coffee Commodities Trading / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Seven_Days_Ahead
The second half of last year was marked by quite choppy action, with nevertheless a clear upward bias. Recently this succession of rising highs and lows was broken, establishing a bear trend that looks to have further to go.
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Commodity Ratios, The Investing Truth They Reveal / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
As gold prices near new highs, some are calling gold's skyrocket success a bubble. However, informed investors are seeing it differently; gold is not much more expensive than its 1980 levels, even despite runaway growth in the money supply over the past 30 years.
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Friday, January 29, 2010
Cocoa Close to Confirming Negative Trend Phase / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Seven_Days_Ahead
A key reversal week in December put bears on the alert, following the 2009 recovery that saw a return to the 2008 peak. Doubts over the ability to sustain the higher levels have been strengthened by latest weakness, but we are still waiting for a break of key support.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
A Decade of Hot Commodities / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Frank_Holmes
We’ve updated our popular Periodic Table of Commodity Returns, and the headline news should come as no surprise – 2009 was a complete turnaround for the sector’s 2008 performance.
Commodities (as measured by the Reuters-Jefferies CRB Index) rose 24 percent in 2009, the largest single-year increase since the early 1970s.
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