Category: Daily Call

March About to Take Prompt

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Switched over to the March contract as the behavior of the expiring Feb contract is not providing valuable information for analytics. The market will still have to address the $1.00 discount provided to the March contract. What do the forecasts have in store for the market.

Major Support: $3.554, $3.374, $3.16-$3.148, $3.136-$3.024, $2.93
Minor Support/Resistance :
Major Resistance: $3.787-$3.831, $4.063, $4.086, $4.593, $5.333, $5.496

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What Do You Know

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Wrote in the Weekly my hesitation to print a Daily yesterday and I suggest you read it. Some asked last week when this run would end and I mentioned that it depends on when the shorts are done covering and the forecasts moderate. Guess the shorts weren’t done until later in the day and the weather is still potentially have an impact on price. Not from the Feb standpoint — but the March price. Not sure where Feb is going to settle but odds are it will be at a significant premium to March and that will be where any forecast implication will be felt. Through all that volatility in Feb, March stayed “calm”

Major Support: $3.554, $3.374, $3.16-$3.148, $3.136-$3.024, $2.93
Minor Support/Resistance :
Major Resistance: $3.787-$3.831, $4.063, $4.086, $4.593, $5.333, $5.496

Weather Driven Short Squeeze Continues

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Wow– prices started to challenge the highs from December in the after market last evening climbing up to $5.345 where the highs from December were $5.496. A client asked how long will this continue – my response was “as long as the forecasts remain this bullish and there remains a significant short interest in the market”. According to the CME website-volume from Monday and Tuesday hit 1.52 million contracts and open interest fell 40,000+ contracts. The Tuesday trade will likely maintain a similar trend for those two elements.

All this buying has the market approaching slightly over bought status. While the RSI has some room left to rally the price run has challenged two standard deviation over the 20 week SMA (see chart below).

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Gap Starts Trade Week

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A distinctly negative bias at the end of last week, reversed quickly yesterday based on a significant modification to weather forecasts creating a technical reversal higher. Discuss some of the ramifications in the Weekly section, but the market has now extended the action I expected this week. Still a negative bias but the market will have to take a couple days and trader’s interpretation to gather support for further gains.

Major Support: $3.16-$3.148, $3.136-$3.024, $2.93
Minor Support/Resistance :
Major Resistance: $3.372, $3.467, $3.554, $3.787-$3.831, $4.063, $4.086

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It Was A Lower High?

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There was a lower high with yesterday’s trade, but I would of liked a test of $3.55-$3.60 as a solid lower high before the collapse of the gains sending price to a lower low. Guess the storage release has a bearish bias. Lower targets have not changed from the beginning of the week.

Major Support: $3.16-$3.148, $3.136-$3.024, $2.93
Minor Support/Resistance :
Major Resistance: $3.372, $3.467, $3.554, $3.787-$3.831, $4.063, $4.086

Perhaps Setting a Lower High

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Suggested in the Weekly section last week that the declines could go straight down but I urged a more structured decline though the process of trading a lower low followed by brief rallies to set a lower high. Looks like this process may be taking establishing this approach.

Major Support: $3.16-$3.148, $3.136-$3.024, $2.93
Minor Support/Resistance :
Major Resistance: $3.372, $3.467, $3.554, $3.787-$3.831, $4.063, $4.086

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Bearish Bias Rocks On

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Define the technical aspect of the price movements last week in the Weekly section. Let me summarize – Bearish Bias and likely to continue though declines may not be quick follow the concept of lower lows and lower highs.

Major Support: $3.16-$3.148, $3.136-$3.024, $2.93
Minor Support/Resistance :
Major Resistance: $3.372, $3.467, $3.554, $3.787-$3.831, $4.063, $4.086

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Testing the Support Zone

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Mentioned in the Weekly section that prices seemed to be destined to check the support zones in the near future. Welcome to the near future as prices melted down to set a lower low but had a brief rally by the end of the day. Market seems to looking at fundamental data coming out at the storage release to add to the bearish bias.

Major Support: $3.57-$3.546, $3.334,$3.16-$3.148
Minor Support/Resistance : $3.489,$3.467
Major Resistance: $3.787-$3.831, $4.063, $4.086

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Negative Bias Returns to Gas

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Go into the many aspects of why the market flipped to a negative bias in the Weekly section — but all you need to see is that prices are down $.15 and challenging support zones in the early Sunday trade. Not sure how this will track (1: an immediate decline during Jan or 2: or a series of lower highs and lower lows) but the market is clearly setting up for the Q1 lows to be established. My guess is the latter with the low occurring next month.

Major Support: $3.57-$3.546, $3.334,$3.16-$3.148
Minor Support/Resistance : $3.489,$3.467
Major Resistance: $3.787-$3.831, $4.063, $4.086