What’s Up, What’s Down: Energy Futures in Spotlight
Comments for Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Looking Ahead to Today by Reflecting Back at Monday’s Price Action
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ENERGIES:
Higher closes Monday for crude oil while lower for heating oil, the rbob and natural gas. The crude, heat and rbob continue to show very choppy action while in sideways trends since late May and early June on the daily charts and May-June 2009 on the weekly ones. Crude did make its best close in 1 1/2 weeks but still continues in a trading range along with the heat and rbob. Gas gapped and settled lower again still in a critical area to hold which it has done for a month now while consolidating as shown below. Of course, its trend has been obviously down since the middle of June.
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Rick Alexander has been a broker and analyst in the futures business for over thirty years. He is a Vice-President for Sales and Trading at the Zaner Group (www.zaner.com) a Chicago-based futures brokerage firm. Email Rick at ralexander@zaner.com.
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