Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Weekly Large Trader COT Report: WTI Crude Oil CFTC COT data shows speculator’s raised oil bets higher last week WTI Crude Oil Non-Commercial Positions: Futures market traders and large oil...

Gold's price has broken out to higher highs, but expect some consolidation and backing and filling before it breaks above the 200DMA.As predicted, everyone started calling a top yesterday when the...

Prices on oilfutures dropped sharply on Monday as data showed that OPEC’s output rose by 109,000 barrels a day in September to 31.57 million barrels a day, the most since 2012, according to its...

After a five-week period of consolidation, energy prices finally broke through the upper bound of their trading range. Oil left a range of US$43 to US$48, even rising close to US$51/barrel. The price...

The best is yet to come and babe, won't it be fine? The best is yet to come, come that OPEC is fine.Forget all of those worries about low oil prices. Oil's best days are still ahead of us. It is the...

For traders, one of the hardest disciplines to master is patience and for long-term oil traders that patience is about to be rewarded. As I have suggested in several, more recent posts on oil,...

Energy prices moved in a narrow range again last week, with returns on WTI, Brent and diesel of 0.5%, -0.5% and 0.2%, respectively. For a fifth consecutive week, WTI fluctuated within a range from...

As most of you probably know, the largest rallies occur during bear markets. They tend to be very aggressive and powerful. This is how one can tell the difference between a countertrend rally in a...

One of the most difficult virtues a trader has to develop is patience, even more so over the last few months where we have seen trends come to a shuddering halt as extended congestion phases build....

Another dismal week for gold investors as the precious metal continues to reflect the longer term bearish sentiment, and with last Thursday’s surge higher, failing to break through in any...

The silver market has found itself under pressure and constrained by uncertainty, affected by the economic slowdown in China and the US Federal Reserve. The result is a consolidation that could force...

WTI Crude Oil prices have come under concerted pressure following the release of figures from the American Petroleum Institute (API) showing a significant increase in inventory levels.The API figures,...

Repeat after me: “The best cure for low commodity prices is low commodity prices.” This mantra isn’t very comforting if that’s mostly because producers are forced to slash...

Oil has been respecting the current range for the past month, although the highs are getting lower. In recent days it has been pushed back to the bottom of the range where the bulls will be lined up...