From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza and Ian Culley @Ianculley
In today’s Commodity Report, we zoomed out to our monthly charts to reconnect with the primary trend. This exercise really allows us to tune out the noise on the weekly and daily charts.
As we were reviewing our charts, there was one recurring theme that kept popping up…
Pullbacks and retests.
The CRB Index retested its breakout zone near the 2018 highs ~206.
Crude oil broke back below a 13-year downtrend line only to reclaim it in recent sessions.
Iron ore fell right back to check in on its 2013 highs.
And even palladium, the one bright spot in the precious metals space, pulled back to a six-year trendline.
But guess what? Just like we’ve recently seen in many of the weakest areas in other asset classes, buyers dug in at these key levels.
Of all these retests, one that stood out most was Uranium.
Let’s take a look. [Read more…]