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Heating Oil Crude Oil
Month High Low Settle Change Volume Month High Low Settle Change Volume
SEP 217.43 214.50 215.38 0.66 32937 SEP 81.76 80.71 81.48 0.78 231103
OCT 220.54 217.85 218.78 0.94 14998 OCT 82.22 81.19 81.95 0.77 106192
NOV 223.26 220.45 221.79 1.03 7703 NOV 82.79 81.78 82.56 0.79 53538
DEC 225.96 223.42 224.37 1.03 7489 DEC 83.37 82.38 83.17 0.46 57937
JAN 228.04 226.08 226.91 1.04 1379 JAN 83.86 83.07 83.73 0.83 7945
FEB 229.12 228.77 228.80 1.01 680 FEB 84.30 83.65 84.23 0.83 7964
MAR 230.57 228.79 229.68 1.01 474 MAR 84.76 84.05 84.67 0.84 7164
APR 229.45 228.70 229.45 1.08 100 APR 85.06 84.52 85.07 0.85 4123
MAY ‐‐‐ ‐‐‐ 229.40 1.16 0 MAY ‐‐‐ ‐‐‐ 85.46 0.87 3116
JUN 230.54 228.40 229.64 1.24 754 JUN 85.87 85.10 85.83 0.89 7884
JUL ‐‐‐ ‐‐‐ 230.84 1.34 0 JUL 86.13 85.86 86.16 0.89 1439
AUG 232.50 232.50 232.27 1.42 42 AUG ‐‐‐ ‐‐‐ 86.40 0.91 0
Unleaded Gasoline Natural Gas
Month High Low Settle Change Volume Month High Low Settle Change Volume
SEP 214.33 210.70 211.87 0.60 33914 SEP 4.548 4.263 4.309 ‐0.158 155006
OCT 206.84 204.02 205.37 1.38 27028 OCT 4.538 4.290 4.332 ‐0.162 104622
NOV 206.55 203.83 205.39 1.55 10896 NOV 4.779 4.565 4.596 ‐0.131 66440
DEC 207.36 204.74 206.38 1.64 7698 DEC 5.050 4.859 4.889 ‐0.112 23317
JAN 209.23 207.28 208.56 1.80 1357 JAN 5.182 4.998 5.028 ‐0.111 18887
FEB 211.48 210.26 210.90 1.84 493 FEB 5.147 4.984 5.013 ‐0.099 3989
MAR 213.52 212.17 213.21 1.83 133 MAR 5.063 4.895 5.019 ‐0.039 6379
APR 224.68 224.54 225.59 1.80 22 APR 4.920 4.770 4.879 ‐0.030 4733
MAY 226.28 226.28 226.40 1.81 6 MAY 4.930 4.795 4.895 ‐0.030 1410
JUN 227.24 225.33 227.12 1.79 8 JUN 4.979 4.844 4.940 ‐0.027 763
JUL ‐‐‐ ‐‐‐ 227.40 1.79 0 JUL 5.014 4.900 4.994 ‐0.029 1008
AUG ‐‐‐ ‐‐‐ 227.10 1.79 0 AUG 5.053 4.949 5.038 ‐0.027 881
Early Evening Market Review for Monday
Oil prices were higher on Monday, after advancing in trading overnight.
Traders were handicapping the [possibility of the Fed, which meets on
Tuesday, finding new forms of “quantitative easing,” a catchall term that
generally means finding ways of getting more liquidity into the system or
promoting lending or borrowing. In other words, the argument was that
things are so bad that the Fed will find a way to make the world better.
Once again, oil prices were living vicariously through equities and the
euro. Both were higher on Monday, and there was a rise of 45.19 points
to 10,698.75 in the DJIA. As far as the fundamentals go, though, the oil
complex continues to ignore factors that only seem to be getting more
bearish. At some point, the fundamentals may be important again.
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That was clearly not the message being sent yesterday. And yesterday’s advance sums up the proclivity of
the oil complex to advance – no matter what. When the economic data was more positive than negative, oil
prices increased because economic recovery would certainly lead to heavier energy use. Now that the
economic figures are getting worse week after week, the bulls believe that the Fed will be forced to find a way
to remedy the situation when it meets on Tuesday. The Fed will find new ways to make money more plentiful,
more easily made or loaned, and the economy will recover and energy demand will increase. In fact, at this
stage, we cannot imagine any set of numbers that this market will not interpret bullishly. Bullish numbers are
bullish and bearish numbers will force the Fed to do something bullish. It makes selling seem dangerous.
That is the bottom line in this market. There is no reason to get short in a market where the field so clearly
slopes towards one goal or end‐zone. It is not a level playing field at all. Whenever prices advance, it seems
that managed money accounts are busy buying, as was the case through last Tuesday. So, we need to ask why
they are buying. One clue comes from zero interest rates. The best‐heeled and biggest players can borrow
money without any cost. They have been borrowing that money and plowing it into commodities. The second
clue comes from gold. Gold is four times the price it was seven or eight years ago. And, as a result, we are
seeing oil prices at three or four times what they ought to be, based on supply and demand.
We have inventories growing regularly. And now, demand is falling again. Based strictly on supply &
demand, oil prices could or should be trading at $20 or maybe $30 a barrel. Because of the assumptions
inherent in zero interest rates and gold at $1200, though, oil is flirting with $80 a barrel, in a period of the
sloppiest and most bearish supply and demand regimen seen in almost 10 years.
Technically, crude oil prices need to print $83.00 to verify the market’s upward course. Heating oil prices
need to print 221.00 and gasoline needs to print 220.00 in order to continue higher. Technically, the oil
complex has some decent resistance overhead, but the trends are all pointed higher. Given the dynamics
described above, it is difficult to envision a way in which oil prices might go lower for an extended period of
time. We do get periodic bouts of risk regurgitation, but they tend not to last that long.
So, we are stuck watching the stock market, the euro, economic data and the Fed.
Crude Oil Daily Technical Chart
Crude oil prices remain above key resistance.
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