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WTI Price Analysis: Oil holds 200-day SMA, suffers biggest single-day drop since Sept.8

  • WTI holds the 200-day simple moving average support. 
  • Indicators favor extension of Wednesday's 5.51% decline. 

West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude, the North American oil benchmark, is currently near $37.50, having avoided a bearish close below the 200-day simple moving average (SMA) support on Wednesday. 

However, the black gold ended the day with a 5.51% drop, the biggest single-day percentage loss since Sept. 8. The decline has strengthened the bearish view put forward by the 14-day relative strength index's ascending triangle breakdown confirmed last week. 

Further, the MACD histogram is now charting deeper bars below the zero line, indicating a strengthening of the bearish momentum. 

As such, a convincing break below the 200-day SMA at $37.30 looks likely. That would shift the focus to deeper support at $36.13 (Sept. 8 low). 

On the higher side, a close above the psychological level of $40 is needed to weaken the bearish bias. 

Daily chart

Trend: Bearish

Technical levels

WTI

Overview
Today last price37.48
Today Daily Change0.02
Today Daily Change %0.05
Today daily open37.51
 
Trends
Daily SMA2039.98
Daily SMA5040.35
Daily SMA10040.46
Daily SMA20038.09
 
Levels
Previous Daily High39.14
Previous Daily Low37.11
Previous Weekly High41.93
Previous Weekly Low39.65
Previous Monthly High43.56
Previous Monthly Low36.43
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%37.88
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%38.36
Daily Pivot Point S136.7
Daily Pivot Point S235.89
Daily Pivot Point S334.67
Daily Pivot Point R138.72
Daily Pivot Point R239.94
Daily Pivot Point R340.75

Author

Omkar Godbole

Omkar Godbole

FXStreet Contributor

Omkar Godbole, editor and analyst, joined FXStreet after four years as a research analyst at several Indian brokerage companies.

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