Crude Oil Daily Technical Outlook

Oil N' Gold Team from Oil N' Gold at 02/05/10

Nymex Crude Oil (CL)

Crude oil's rebound from 72.43 should have completed at 78.04 already and fall from 83.95 is resuming. Break of 72.43 low will target 68.59 support next. On the upside, above 74.50 will turn intraday bias neutral and bring recovery. But upside should be limited below 78.04 resistance and bring fall resumption.

In the bigger picture, current development revives the case that medium term rise from 33.2 has topped out at 83.95 on bearish divergence condition in daily MACD. Break of 68.59 will confirm this case and target 58.32 support next. On the upside, however, above 78.04 resistance will dampen this view and argue that the medium term rise might still be in progress. Nevertheless, even in case of another high above 83.95, we'd continue to look of reversal signal as crude oil approaches 50% retracement of 147.27 to 33.2 at 90.24, which is close to 90 psychological level.

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