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Natural Gas Price Forecast – natural gas markets screamed to the upside again

By:
Christopher Lewis
Updated: Aug 9, 2018, 04:50 UTC

Natural gas markets took off during trading on Wednesday, as the $2.90 level has now offered a bit of a springboard. As I record this video, we are close to the $2.96 level, which of course is approaching the psychologically important three dollars handle. Because of this, I think the sellers aren’t that far away.

Natural gas daily chart, August 09, 2018

Natural gas markets have been range bound for quite some time, with the $3.00 level offering the beginning of significant resistance. Granted, it extends all the way to the $3.10 level, so it isn’t exactly the easiest short to put on. However, when you back up and look at the longer-term charts, this is an area that has seen a lot of selling pressure. This is mainly because a lot of natural gas suppliers are profitable at the $3.00 level, so they are more than willing to dump it out into the open market.

At this point, buying is futile, because you would be “chasing the trade.” This is a classic retail trader mistake, so if you are bullish of natural gas longer-term, you simply must wait for some type of pullback from this point. If you do not, I suspect you will regret that down the road.

If we did break above the $3.10 level, then I think natural gas could go as high as $3.40 based upon previous moves. Needless to say, it would take a significant amount of momentum to make that happen, but it is possible. As for myself, I will be sitting on the sidelines and waiting for some type of negativity to show up or simply some type of exhaustion that I can start taking advantage of. At that point, I believe that we could start to see a very large move to the downside as we have several times before.

NATGAS Video 09.08.18

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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