Assessing Brent's Support Levels for Potential OpportunitiesHello Everyone,
Despite being below the 1D/1W PP, Brent appears to be a promising buy. Both the weekly and daily support levels are showing resilience. However, if these support levels falter, there's a possibility of revisiting the monthly support.
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Bullish Oil Options Traded at Record Pace Before Iran AttackOil investors piled into the options market days before Iran launched its attack on Israel and traded a record amount of contracts that profit from higher prices. Just over 1 million calls on the global Brent crude benchmark traded last week, surpassing a previous record, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The volumes were focused on contracts at $95 and above $100, with bullish calls trading at hefty premiums to bearish puts in recent weeks.
Traders have been flocking to the oil options market in order to hedge themselves against the risk of prices moving higher if the conflict between Israel and Iran widens further. Options are often used to protect against major geopolitical risks as they allow a cheaper way of profiting from a spike in prices.
Many of the bets won’t have profited yet given that crude prices and market volatility retreated when the market opened early on Monday, with the benchmark now changing hands below $90. However, as tensions in the region remain high such hedges are likely to remain in place over the coming weeks.
Calls at $100 and $110 are the most held options contracts over the next 12 months for Brent, according to ICE Futures Europe data compiled by Bloomberg. On Thursday alone, about 29 million barrels of new call option contracts were opened on the nearest trading month.
Brent Oil Price Did Not Rise Despite Iran's Attack on IsraelBrent Oil Price Did Not Rise Despite Iran's Attack on Israel
As you know, Iran launched a missile attack on Israel over the weekend. This could greatly increase the price of Brent oil, given that Iran is one of the top 10 oil producing countries, and the fact of the strike could provoke further escalation in the region.
However, at the beginning of the trading week, the price of Brent oil is below the levels at which they were at the end of last week. How so?
It is acceptable to assume the impact that the price reflects market risks and the expectations of its participants:
→ As the media wrote last week, the blow was expected after Israel’s attack on the Iranian mission.
→ The risk of escalation is not as high as it could be. According to the Washington Post, Biden advises Netanyahu to “slow down” after the Iranian attack. Administration officials said the United States would not join in any response to Tehran's attack and suggested Israel avoid escalation.
How might the situation develop further on the oil market?
From the point of view of technical analysis of the price of Brent oil, as we wrote on April 4, the upper limit of the blue channel is around USD 92 per barrel of Brent.
→ Fears of escalation pushed the price beyond the USD 91 level, but it failed to gain a foothold there.
→ The price quickly returned below the USD 91 level (as shown by the arrows) — a sign of bearish activity.
→ Resistance to price growth is provided by both the upper border of the blue channel and the upper border of the intermediate ascending channel (shown by black lines).
Please note that if we take the A→B impulse as a 100% basis, then at the price level of USD 90.80 per barrel of Brent there is a Fibonacci resistance level of 1.618.
Therefore, there is reason to assume that the price of oil may form a correction to the lower black support line if there are no signs of escalation (then the price of oil may rise closer to USD 100, as CNBC writes). And for the current US authorities, it is believed that rising oil prices are unprofitable due to the upcoming elections.
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Will Brent continue to rise?📊 According to the buying pressure in the market, if the range of 91.5 units is broken upwards and the price stabilizes above it, the price may increase to the range of 72.6 units🎯, and if the range of 93.5 units🎯🎯 is strong.
📊 Otherwise, the price may decrease to the range of 88.5 units.
UKOil short term bias (Counter trend) looks bearish**Monthly Chart**
Last month's candle closed bullish indicating a continuous uptrend move at least to the monthly MC of Oct 2023. This month candle opened near the high of the previous candle and resumed higher.
**Weekly Chart**
Last week's candle closed bullish, suggesting a continuation of the bullish move at least toward testing the previous MC candle around the 95 level. However, short-term bias (counter trend) is bearish if the price is unable to sustain the move higher and start reversing.
**Daily Chart**
Short-term counter trend bias is bearish at the break of key reversal near the liquidity pool (Supply Zone) at least to test 88.00 level before it continues moving higher.
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What I expect of Brent in intraday Chart Hello everyone
I think after last week that Brent fixed its buyer positions, now it is making a correction for its wave 1 Minor of wave (3) intermediate of ...
This counting is so controversial between bearish market fans but as I always say, I do not have any interest to any bullish or bearish market and I just try to make money so I change my strategy when invalidation or confirmations order me to do that.
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UKOIL APRIL 2024 WEEK 2 OUTLOOK -
Daily - looking good for longs. gap down today looks good for the bias continuation but I will be much keen to enter longs if we get a deeper pullback.
Origin - **90.31** is the level I am looking for. once that gets cleared, I can enter long position. before that happens, it will be better if we get another pullback to start of month AVWAP or even lower to previous week's VAL
Brent Crude Oil Demand Spike(WTICOUSD, too)Looking forward to entering Long on BCOUSD after NFP today.
Am not too eager to enter, if it happens, its good. If it doesn't happen, I am fine too, since today is Friday, and I have to hold my positions over the weekends.
I am used to holding trades over the weekends, however I prefer the weekdays. Therefore, when Mondays roll around, I thank God its Monday!
Anyway, our discounted price zone is the 10EMA based on previous Black Friday Sale discounts offered.
Price made a kink in the 10EMA discount by offering 20EMA discount yesterday or so, however, I do not believe it would continue giving 20EMA discounts which is bigger discounts, because, the Flag Pole is very big and long, while the flag is minute.
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UKOIL Bullish Trade OpportunityOverview:
Get ready for a potential uptrend continuation in UKOIL! Our charts are painting a picture of bullish sentiment, and we've got the technical set-up to back up our next big move.
Technical Analysis:
On the 1-hour chart, we've noticed a dip into the golden Fibonacci zone – a classic area of interest for bulls to jump in. It’s an optimal entry spot for those looking to catch the wave up. Switching to the daily, UKOIL is comfortably cruising in an uptrend, channeling between support and resistance levels that have stood the test of time.
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Inflation reignition. UK Brent Crude is looking poised to climb higher to test the 2023 high of $95 per barrel. Technically, the commodity is overbought on the RSI indicator so a pullback and test of the blue support range around $87.50 seems like the next likely move. Additionally, the 50-day MA has now crossed above the 200-day MA which is another strong indicator for a sustained move higher.
Commodities are awakening from their slumber which is sparking renewed global inflation fears. Due to escalating global tensions, crude oil has surged more than 10% since the start of March which has seen the price per barrel close above $90 per barrel last week.
Precious metals along with industrial metals have also benefitted from the rise in oil prices which has seen the Reuters Core Commodity index climb to a 6-month high. As mentioned previously, the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) fight against inflation is essentially its fight against oil and this recent break-out in commodity prices has poured some cold water on the expectations that the Fed will start cutting rates as soon as June this year.
Brent oil has broken out or not?Hi
I have posted an idea about UK oil a few weeks ago that tried to show bearish market is not finishes yet but I never insist on my ideas and for now there is a considerable doubt about it I need to share it with you as an alternative.
Just let to break out green static support and then purple channel to decide about bull positions.
DeGRAM | UKOIL bullish potentialUKOIL rebounded from the support level and broke close above the channel.
The market descending channel is just a pullback on the 4-hourly chart, so it makes sense to buy the market.
We expect a bullish move to potentially break out of higher highs.
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