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WTI Price Analysis: Bearish impulse looks set to retest $65.00

  • WTI remains pressured after breaking weekly support line.
  • Bearish impulse, failures to cross the key hurdles favor sellers.

WTI holds onto the last two days’ downbeat performance, recently pressured to $67.85 amid Monday’s Asian session. The black gold broke a one-week-old rising support line, now resistance, the previous day.

The trend line breakdown gains extra support from bearish MACD signals and the commodity’s sustained trading below the key SMAs and horizontal resistance.

Hence, the WTI bears are on the driver’s seat towards the double-bottom surrounding $65.00. However, $67.40 and $66.00 may offer intermediate halts during the fall.

In a case where the oil sellers keep reins past $65.00, May’s low surrounding $61.50 should return to the charts.

On the flip side, the resistance-turned-support precedes a downward sloping trend line from August 06, respectively around $68.25 and $69.20, to challenge WTI’s short-term rebound.

However, a horizontal area comprising multiple levels marked since early July, also including 100-SMA, challenges the quote’s further upside around $70.00–70.30. Also acting as an upside hurdle is the 200-SMA level of $71.12.

WTI: Four-hour chart

Trend: Further weakness expected

Additional important levels

Overview
Today last price67.85
Today Daily Change0.05
Today Daily Change %0.07%
Today daily open67.8
 
Trends
Daily SMA2069.75
Daily SMA5071.3
Daily SMA10067.46
Daily SMA20060.07
 
Levels
Previous Daily High69
Previous Daily Low67.57
Previous Weekly High69.42
Previous Weekly Low65.03
Previous Monthly High76.4
Previous Monthly Low64.99
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%68.12
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%68.46
Daily Pivot Point S167.24
Daily Pivot Point S266.69
Daily Pivot Point S365.81
Daily Pivot Point R168.68
Daily Pivot Point R269.56
Daily Pivot Point R370.11

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Anil Panchal

Anil Panchal

FXStreet

Anil Panchal has nearly 15 years of experience in tracking financial markets. With a keen interest in macroeconomics, Anil aptly tracks global news/updates and stays well-informed about the global financial moves and their implications.

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