Prices had rallied in 5 waves and after that the correction which we saw can be termed as wave a and now prices could have a pullback in wave b towards 38.2 retracements at 67.10, 50 percent is at 68.2 and 61.8 percent is at 69.3, says Priyank Upadhyay of SSJ Finance & Securities.
Priyank Upadhyay
Oil prices rose by around 1 percent on Friday, lifted by uncertainty over whether OPEC would manage to agree on a production increase at a meeting in Vienna later in the day.
WTI Crude was at USD 66.35 a barrel. After weeks of back-and-forth sparring, Saudi Arabia and Russia have reportedly reached a preliminary deal to boost crude supply by 1 million barrels per day but other OPEC members including Iran have opposed this.
Some countries are unable to ramp up capacity to such an extent, so the actual increase may amount to more modest 600k barrels per day. A net increase of 600-800k barrels per day is probably priced in already and the announcement of such a modest boost may even trigger a relief rally.
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OPEC agreed on Friday to raise oil production by around 1 million barrels per day from July for the group and its allies. The output gain is nominal. The real increase will be smaller because several countries that recently under produced oil will struggle to return to full quotas while other producers will not be allowed to fill the gap.
This could lead a pullback towards higher levels. Apart from the OPEC meet market will also take cues from movement of dollar index, recent strength in dollar index from 92/93 to 95 has pressured oil prices and now dollar index is approaching a resistance area of 95.50/96 and has turned lower from there towards 94.50 which could provide support to oil prices and we could expect a pullback rally.
Crude Oil Technical Analysis:
From the above chart, we can see crude prices after hitting USD 72/73 (MCX: Rs 4,900/5,000) in the month of May are continuously trading with a negative bias and recently made a low of 63.59 (MCX: Rs 4,316) and after that are trading in a range of 63.59 (MCX: 4316) and 67.16 (MCX: Rs 4,575).
Prices had rallied in 5 waves and after that the correction which we saw can be termed as wave a and now prices could have a pullback in wave b towards 38.2 retracements at 67.10, 50 percent is at 68.2 and 61.8 percent is at 69.3 and after that we could see correction in prices in wave c which can go below 61.80.
Now, the resistance is placed at 67.20 (MCX: 4580) and a break above that we could see a rally towards 68.60/69.40 (MCX:4650/4700) zones.
Supports are placed at 64/63.50 (MCX:4335/4300) zones and break of supports could see prices heading lower towards 61.80 (MCX:4200) levels. Prices are trading below the 50 and 20(SMA) suggesting weakness in prices.
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