December, which was awarded $.559 premium when November went off the board immediately began to forfeit that premium, reducing it to $.286 by Friday 11/01. December proceeded to gap lower to begin its first full week as prompt. Opening at $2.560 the new prompt traded to $2.514 before reversing higher. The $.281 range traded 11/04 was the widest daily range since a series of them in January (including 01/09 when a range of $.508 led to the to date high of 2024 at $3.392).
Despite the reversal with the highest volume of the week by a considerable margin, December was unable to build on the impressive recovery. Contracting ranges were traded between $2.818 and $2.643 with the low of that four day period traded just before the close on Friday. After trading a series of higher lows during ’21 & ’22 (the last of which was during 10/22) lower lows were traded in March ’23 and March ’24. While not definitive of the beginning of an intermediate/long – term uptrend significant higher lows have been traded during April, July/August and October.
