USOIL as we move into Thanksgiving

Energy

Front-month WTI crude prices rose over 2% from yesterday from the prior day’s lows, drawing back in on the 2-month high seen last week.  The strength of Oil came in contrast with the fact that API reported a build of 5.954 million barrels of crude oil inventories for the week ending Nov. 15, and the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported an increase of 1.4 million barrels. This pointing that the key driver of oil are trade talks.

The recent rise in oil prices has been concomitant with a risk-on sentiment in global markets after President Trump said that the US and China were in the the “final throes” or hammering out a “phase 1” trade deal. Meanwhile in the OPEC front, in focus is the OPEC+ meeting in Vienna next week, in which the hot topic will be whether will or not agree the agreed cuts in place will be extended or be even deeper.

Meanwhile, despite that trade hopes supported oil’s demand side of the equation so far this week, the fact that we are in the mid of a short week due to Thanksgiving holidays, could limitate overshadow USOIL upwards trend. USOIL is retesting for the 5th day the 58.70 Pivotal High and the significant 61.8% Fib. retracement level from September drift.

Despite the 8-week incline, the asset has been moving into a channel with noticeable retracements at Resistance levels, which followed the formation of the next swing lower. Hence as we move along, the retest of the 58.70 at the 61.8% Fib retracement level could see a correction lower to the key Support at  57.00 level which is a confluence of 50% Fib. level and 200- and 20-day SMA. This lays 57.00 as a significant and strong Support level. However such a corrective move would not be sufficient to reverse the overall positive outlook. Therefore any intraday weakness could follow another attempt for a configuration of a higher high.

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