Category: Daily Call

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The run extended yesterday morning, setting a new recent high at $3.096, before serious selling took prices down, well below $3.00. From there, the market showed resilience as a rally into the close. From the close prices are still trading higher in the after-market back above $3.00. From the technical position — the action is consolidating whether the move above $3.00 will hold as support in the long run.

Major Support:, $1.595, $1.52-$1.511, $1.481, $1.312
Minor Support : $2.844, $2.64, $2.448, $2.168, $2.12, $2.00, $1.967- $1.94
Major Resistance: $2.94, $2.97, $3.00, $3.16

Price closed above resistance level trend line (discussed in the Weekly section) and are challenging levels not seen since Jan at $3.00. Last week’s reversal of a reversal (also discussed in the Weekly) signals that the historical strength in prices during Jun is evident again in ’24. Sent out the historical chart last week and would advise using some of the averages in your analysis. For now its time to watch and see how the $3.00 level is handled.

Major Support:, $1.595, $1.52-$1.511, $1.481, $1.312
Minor Support : $2.844, $2.64, $2.448, $2.168, $2.12, $2.00, $1.967- $1.94
Major Resistance: $2.94, $2.97, $3.00, $3.16

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Early morning strength gave way to selling on the storage data release, then the market spent the late morning rally back to develop a gain. Play the historical tendencies here.

Major Support:, $1.595, $1.52-$1.511, $1.481, $1.312
Minor Support : $2.448, $2.168, $2.12, $2.00, $1.967- $1.94
Major Resistance: $2.844, $2.94

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Spoke about the history of trade during June after the Memorial Day weakness. Below you see the trades from the lows (date and value) and the rally date setting the high (date and value).

The average percentage gains over the last 10 years is $.481 or 17.06%. This chart shows why the case has been made that prices rally in June setting the high for the month sometime towards the middle of the calendar month. The daily trade behavior seems to be similar to 2023 and would use this as the base case for the coming month.

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The June prompt started strong then developed a range at the end of the month. The July contract may be developing a range at the front of the month followed by volatility (either up or down) later in the month. Ran into a little data error in developing the history of rallies in June and will endeavor to provide it tomorrow.

Major Support:, $1.595, $1.52-$1.511, $1.481, $1.312
Minor Support : $2.168, $2.12, $2.00, $1.967- $1.94
Major Resistance: $2.67, $2.844

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Discussed yesterday the historical seasonal norms after the market trades to its Memorial Day weakness– which were evident with the brief rally yesterday. Going to put together a table of the June calendar rallies for tomorrow’s Daily. I did not site the weekly internal trends from last week in the Weekly report and I apologize. Volume fell last week 33% in average daily volume versus the previous week (last week average daily volume over 444,188 contracts versus the average daily the week before 663,043 contracts). Remember the previous week was the weekly reversal discuss then. Open interest declined last week by 30,418 positions (recognizing there was a contract expiration). As discussed previously– follow the volume trends in the near future.

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Prompt gas followed history, drifting south after the holiday and closed the week lower after the expiring June contract extended the weakness associated with expiration’s of late. Now, does the rhyme continue with a rally in the July contract. Strength this week will lead to that potential– early trade Sunday night is showing some support off of tests of support.

Major Support:, $1.595, $1.52-$1.511, $1.481, $1.312
Minor Support : $2.168, $2.12, $2.00, $1.967- $1.94
Major Resistance: $2.67, $2.844

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The expiration took the prompt June down to the key breakout level from earlier in the month around $2.45. July was afforded a premium of a little over $.20 during the process — which will likely lead to weakness as July takes over as prompt.

Major Support:, $1.595, $1.52-$1.511, $1.481, $1.312
Minor Support : $2.168, $2.12, $2.00, $1.967- $1.94
Major Resistance: $2.67, $2.844

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Early weakness tests near term support only to spend most of the day rebounding. Discussed over the last few months — expiration is not likely to follow any technical interpretations– rather follow who is left and are they long or short. That can lead to wild price range trade– I prefer hanging to the side.

Major Support:, $1.595, $1.52-$1.511, $1.481, $1.312
Minor Support : $2.168, $2.12, $2.00, $1.967- $1.94
Major Resistance: $2.67, $2.844

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Discuss the effect of the Weekly reversal last week in the Weekly area — but a reversal is a reversal and should be respected as such. You know my attitude about the expiration process and not trading the prompt but focusing on next month and with the $.25 premium placed on July it would seem to be a reasonable time to evaluate the possible seasonal weakness into July’s early tenure before getting too aggressive.

Major Support:, $1.595, $1.52-$1.511, $1.481, $1.312
Minor Support : $2.168, $2.12, $2.00, $1.967- $1.94
Major Resistance: $2.46, $2.67, $2.844