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Crude Oil Forecast: Crude Oil Continues to See Basing Action on Friday

By Christopher Lewis
Senior Technical Analyst

Christopher Lewis is a technical analyst and market commentator at DailyForex with more than two decades of trading experience in Forex and other leveraged markets. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he specializes in chart-based analysis of major currency pairs, stock indices, commodities, and energy markets, focusing on clear support and resistance levels, trend structure, and risk management. Christopher produces daily written and video analysis for tra...

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  • The light sweet crude oil market has rallied a bit during trading here on Friday as we continue to just simply go back and forth.
  • This is a market that continues to pay close attention to the $60 level as a potential support level.
  • But at this point, you also have to keep in mind that there is a significant amount of resistance above the 50 day EMA currently sits right around the $63.50 level and is dropping.

So, I think we have a situation where we are just squeezing and therefore, I think we will try to build up the necessary inertia to determine which direction we want to go in the longer term. Trend changes, or at least potential ones, are always messy.

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On the Move Higher…

If we can break above the $65 level, that opens up a pretty significant move to the upside from what I see, probably a move to the $70 level where the 200-day EMA currently resides. If we were to break down below the $60 level, then it opens up the possibility of a drop down to the $55 level where we have seen a bit of a double bottom form.

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Ultimately, I do think we are in the midst of a bottoming process because when you look at the longer-term charts, it's right around here that the market has paid close attention to for a long time. And we again have formed that double bottom. So, I do think that the market's trying to lean to the upside. There were a lot of concerns out there when it comes to demand, as well as supply. Supply was a little overdone, but ultimately, I think you've got a situation where traders look at this as value and they will more likely than not end up buying dips.

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Senior Technical Analyst
Christopher Lewis is a technical analyst and market commentator at DailyForex with more than two decades of trading experience in Forex and other leveraged markets. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he specializes in chart-based analysis of major currency pairs, stock indices, commodities, and energy markets, focusing on clear support and resistance levels, trend structure, and risk management. Christopher produces daily written and video analysis for traders who rely on technical setups to navigate volatile market conditions

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