MBWealth’s Commodity Blog

Based on the last two day’s action Crude oil appears to be making attempts at higher ground. We will be late to this move because I do not trust it and need further confirmation before getting bullish exposure for clients. A settlement above $79.50 would be the first hurdle. Natural gas will close 8% higher this [...]

Crude recovered the two previous day’s losses gaining 1.8% today. We expected to see the 50 day MA give way and prices to trade lower, we were wrong. We would move to the sidelines until Crude gives a clearer signal on direction. We expect a trade above $79.50 to signal higher ground and a trade [...]

Regardless of the color of the book traders did not like what they saw. Crude traded below the 50 day MA but did manage a close above that level; in September at $76.30. We would be selling rallies if forced into the market still thinking there is more down side.  By the conclusion of the week [...]

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From my perspective indices are in the driver’s seat and commodities are looking for guidance. Crude is set to finish the week higher by about $3 closing out near a three week high. We assume that if the bulls in the stock market can push or even hold indices at current levels prices could test [...]

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Please click on spreadsheet to view and zoom to 100% Energies For the last six weeks Crude oil has been in a $10 trading range and as of the close last week prices are just about in the middle of that range trading at $76/barrel on the front month. We suggest buying dips near $73-74 [...]

Please click on spreadsheet to view and zoom to 100% Energies Crude oil prices dropped nearly $7/barrel last week and could challenge the lows from late May. We don’t read too much into the sideways action in the last five weeks and instead view it as a trading range. As position traders well know there [...]

June 28, 2010 By: Matthew Bradbard MB Wealth Corp. is not responsible and does not endorse anything outside of the content of this article authored by Matthew Bradbard; President of MB Wealth. While the media circus is focusing on Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain, commodity traders should be more concerned about Petroleum, Indices, Interest [...]

Please click on spreadsheet and zoom to 100% Energies Crude reversed direction last week closing near $79/barrel and breaking out of the descending triangle that buoyed prices since the beginning of May. It could be on technical buying as the 20 day MA supported last week though tropical storms heading towards the gulf may also [...]