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Market update: last week’s pause pushed crude oil retail traders to add upside bets


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Crude oil prices paused rallying last week, while retail traders slightly increased upside bets and pondered the short-term outlook for WTI.

 

original-size.webpSource: Bloomberg

 

Daniel Dubrovsky | Currency Analyst, DailyFX, San Francisco | Publication date: Tuesday 26 September 2023 05:09

Crude oil sentiment outlook: bearish

Crude oil prices took a breather last week, leaving West Texas Intermediate (WTI) little changed by Friday. This meant a pause after weeks of consistent gains.

Recent data from IG Client Sentiment (IGCS) shows that there has been a cautious increase in upside exposure in crude oil. IGCS tends to function as a contrarian indicator, with that in mind, could oil aim lower in the near term?

According to IGCS, only 36% of retail traders are net-long crude oil. Since most of them are biased to the downside, this continues to suggest that prices may rally down the road.

That said, upside exposure has increased by 7.73% and 1.81% from the last trading day and one week ago, respectively. With that in mind, recent changes in positioning hint that prices might soon reverse lower ahead.

IG Client Sentiment chart

 

dd_260923_WTI.pngSource: DailyFX

WTI crude oil technical analysis

On the daily chart below, WTI has pushed higher over the past 48 hours (trading days). This is somewhat undermining the emergence of a Bearish Engulfing from last week.

This followed a rejection of the 61.8% Fibonacci extension level of 88.75, where support was reinforced. As such, this is leaving a neutral technical setting in the very short term.

Key resistance is the 92.43 – 93.72 range, made up of highs from November. Meanwhile, the 20-day moving sverage is creeping higher. The latter may hold as support, maintaining the upside technical bias.

Otherwise, a breakout below it subsequently places the focus on the 84.84 inflection zone.

WTI crude oil daily chart

 

dd2_260923_WTI.pngSource: TradingView

 

 

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