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Natural Gas Price Forecast January 30, 2018, Technical Analysis

By:
Christopher Lewis
Updated: Jan 30, 2018, 04:12 UTC

Natural gas markets have gone sideways during the trading session on Monday, bouncing from the $3.30 level. There’s very little in the way of volume, and we are reaching towards a significant barrier above. This time of year, markets tend to start looking towards the springtime in America, and that means less demand.

Natural gas daily chart, January 30, 2018

Natural gas markets have gone sideways during the trading session on Monday, bouncing from the $3.30 level. That’s an area that offers significant support, and I think that breaking down below there would be a very negative sign. We would probably drift towards the $3.20 level underneath, and then eventually the $3.10 level. I anticipate that the market will continue to be very noisy but will eventually find sellers again. We are overbought, and most certainly oversupplied longer term.

There is a massive barrier above, especially at the $3.50 level, which of course is psychologically important. It is also an area where we have seen structural resistance in the past, so I’m looking for a breakdown with some type of strong volume to start selling. I will point out that most of the stronger candles have been red volume wise and should continue to show signs of exhaustion as the move on the longer-term charts have been so overdone. Ultimately, I believe that the market will find itself closer to the $2.75 range within the next couple of weeks than above $3.50. However, if we were to break above there it would be a very bullish sign and could send us into unknown territory as of late and could throw a lot of things into question. Typically, the market peaks in mid-to-late January, which is exactly where we are, meaning that this may be more of a seasonal thing than anything else.

NATGAS Video 30.01.18

About the Author

Being FXEmpire’s analyst since the early days of the website, Chris has over 20 years of experience across various markets and assets – currencies, indices, and commodities. He is a proprietary trader as well trading institutional accounts.

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