[Chart Of The Week] Crude Oil's Range Remains Intact

February 12, 2020

From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

With Crude Oil down 25% over the last month and the rest of the Energy complex struggling in tandem, let's take a look at where it stands and where it could potentially head.

In January, Crude Oil put in a failed breakout above 65 on geopolitical tensions and then sold off in classic "from failed moves come fast moves" fashion. Now, we're 25% lower at the bottom of a year-long range as momentum diverges positively. From our perspective, as long as prices are above their recent lows of 49.30, then this long-term range remains intact and we want to be erring on the long side with a target back up towards 65. Below 49.30, there's risk down towards the 2018 lows of 42.50.

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Another interesting way to look at this is the CRB Index, which has a 40% weighting towards Energy Commodities, relative to the Equally-Weighted Commodity Continuous Index. This ratio recently broke a 4-year support level and made new all-time lows as momentum diverged slightly. As long as today's move in Energy holds, then this failed breakdown and bullish momentum divergence confirms and we'd expect further near-term outperformance from the CRB Index, driven by Energy.

If you look at Heating Oil and Gasoline, the setups are also very similar.

We're also seeing a tactical bounce in Energy stocks which have been an absolute disaster, so there may be some short-term trading opportunities there on the long side. At the very least, it's tough to be short those names at current levels.

Overall, Energy looks to have confirmed a near-term bottom...especially if we close decently strong today.

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Allstarcharts Team