{"id":105607,"date":"2017-05-05T06:38:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T10:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=105607"},"modified":"2017-05-05T06:38:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T10:38:58","slug":"brent-crude-oil-technical-analysis-weak-demand-a-headwind-for-brent-crude-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2017\/05\/brent-crude-oil-technical-analysis-weak-demand-a-headwind-for-brent-crude-price\/","title":{"rendered":"BRENT Crude Oil: Technical Analysis &#8211; Weak demand a headwind for Brent crude price"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-418783954\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">May 5, 2017<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifcmarkets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IFCMarkets<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Weak demand a headwind for Brent crude price<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifcmarkets.com\/en\/market-data\/commodities-prices\/brent\"> Brent<\/a> crude price has been declining on continued excess of supply over global demand. Will the price continue falling?<\/p>\n<p>The US Energy Information Agency reported on Wednesday the decline in US inventories was much less than expected. US crude inventories fell by 930 thousand barrels last week, the fourth consecutive decline, but at 527.8 million barrels they are still 3% higher from this time a year ago. At the same time gasoline stockpiles edged up by 200 thousand barrels, as gasoline demand continues to remain weak pointing to another inventories build. Weak US gasoline demand is bearish for oil prices with global market struggling to rebalance the supply glut.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ifcmarkets.com\/uploads\/images\/Brent_05May2017.png\" alt=\"BRENT\" width=\"660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"emailSummary\">On the daily chart the <b> BRENT: D1 <\/b> has been retracing after rebounding to two month high in mid-April. The price has fallen below the 200-day moving average MA(200).<\/p>\n<ul class=\"emailSummary\">\n<li>The <b>Parabolic indicator<\/b> gives a sell signal.<\/li>\n<li>The <b>Donchian channel <\/b> indicates a downtrend: it is tilted downward.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifcmarkets.com\/en\/ntx-indicators\/stoch\">stochastic oscillator <\/a> is falling but hasn\u2019t reached the oversold zone yet.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifcmarkets.com\/en\/ntx-indicators\/macd\">MACD indicator <\/a> is below the signal line and the gap is rising which is also a bearish signal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We expect the bearish momentum will continue after the price breaches below lower Donchian bound at 50.04. This level can be used as an entry point for a pending order to sell. The stop loss can be placed above the Parabolic signal at 52.82. After placing the pending order, the stop loss is to be moved to the next fractal low, following Parabolic signals. By doing so, we are changing the probable profit\/loss ratio to the breakeven point. The most risk-averse traders may switch to the 4-hour chart after the trade and place there a stop-loss moving it in the direction of the trade. If the price meets the stop loss level (52.82) without reaching the order (50.04), we recommend canceling the position: the market sustains internal changes which were not taken into account.<\/p><div id=\"inves-414657794\" class=\"inves-in-content inves-entity-placement\"><hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads_header\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size:10px; float:left; color:#666;\">Free Reports:<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads\"> \r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/graph_techs_PD.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t     <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><b><u>Get Our Free Metatrader 4 Indicators<\/u><\/b><\/a> - Put Our Free MetaTrader 4 Custom Indicators on your charts when you join our Weekly Newsletter<\/p><br><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cot_pie_80.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t    <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><b><u>Get our Weekly Commitment of Traders Reports<\/u><\/b><\/a> - See where the biggest traders (Hedge Funds and Commercial Hedgers) are positioned in the futures markets on a weekly basis.<\/p><br><br>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<br><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"emailSummary\" style=\"margin-top: 15px !important;\">Technical Analysis Summary<\/h2>\n<table style=\"border: solid 1px black;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><b>Position<\/b><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Sell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><b>Sell stop<\/b><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Below 50.04<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><b>Stop loss<\/b><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Above 52.82<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Market Analysis provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifcmarkets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IFCMarkets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By IFCMarkets Weak demand a headwind for Brent crude price Brent crude price has been declining on continued excess of supply over global demand. Will the price continue falling? The US Energy Information Agency reported on Wednesday the decline in US inventories was much less than expected. US crude inventories fell by 930 thousand barrels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105617,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105607\/revisions\/105617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}