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Oil Pivoting to the Upside

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Before the open today, I noted to our members that crude oil is starting to look and act like the correction off of the Aug 19 high at $48.75 in the USO into this morning’s low at $46.42 is at, or very near, completion. If accurate, this also means that oil is close to pivoting to the upside into another upleg that projects to $51-$52 next.

Since then, the USO has popped above nearest-term resistance at $47.00, and increasingly looks like the Aug 19-24 correction is complete — and that a new upleg is in its infancy.

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Originally published on MPTrader.com.

 

There’s No Rushing These Things

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Stan’s on holiday this week (as well as last week) and I’m minding the shop at theartofchart.net, so I’ve been more underwater than usual. I try to get these posts out in the morning but that’s not always possible. Apologies for this particularly late one.

Bears had a good day yesterday and the marginal swing high that I was looking for was not made. Does this mean that this seemingly eternal topping process is finally done? Well no, but it’s a step closer to finished. As I mention regularly, there’s no hurrying these things and topping processes particularly can test the patience of even the most experienced traders. It’s coming, and coming soon, but there’s still more to do as I’ll show below.

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