Commodities Countdown

New Year New Ideas - Webinar Skim 2017-01-05

Greg Schnell

Greg Schnell

Chief Technical Analyst, Osprey Strategic

One of the amazing parts about the market is how something can run for an entire year and then be off the table for the next year. Nike topped out in November 2015 and finished 2016 as one of the worst Dow stocks. With horrific retail sales numbers from some of the stores, Visa goes ballistic, up 4% in three trading days. Natural Gas goes ballastic for 2016 and drops huge on the first day of the year. So the work continues to find the big movers of 2017 and we've only got 51 weeks to get going. 

Some of the oil companies are sitting on year long trends. An example would be Apache who found a massive 3 Billion barrels of oil this past year in one of the largest "on-land" rather than offshore finds.

Oil is in the middle of an outside week. The problem here is the oil companies have not followed or led oil higher to the $55 level on the $WTIC chart. Some caution is required on the Oil Co's here.

Here is the USO chart showing Friday's trading level at time of writing. Unchanged from Year end.

Gold has turned up, since the 24th of December. Now the hard part begins, will it hold the gains?

There was a lot of big picture thinking for the 2017 year for Commodities in general like basic materials. There are some compelling charts on the webinar that will give you a new sense of interest in the commodity trade for 2017. Here is a link to the quickly paced webinar! Commodities Countdown 2017-01-05.

Commodities Countdown LIVE! with Greg Schnell - 2017-01-05 17:00 from StockCharts.com on Vimeo.

Probably the most compelling part of the story might be the change in the $USD and some of the ramifications around that. Whether it is short term or starting to play out in the bigger picture is what we have to watch for. Check out the webinar this weekend. I think you'll find the webinar makes a strong case for staying tuned into the Commodities Countdown webinar this year!


I have two upcoming special event webinars in January. On top of the regular ones, I will be doing two more this month. One is with Tom Bowley on Saturday, January 14th at 11 AM ET. This will be exclusive to StockCharts subscribers. This webinar will be jam packed and probably hit the limit in terms of number of registrants of our GotoWebinar plan. I strongly encourage you to enroll early! Tom Bowley and Greg Schnell 2017 Market Look.

Secondly, I will be kicking off the Saturday morning presentations at Chart Summit 2017 on January 28th, 2017. This is a free two day webinar only event organized by my good friend JC Parets at AllStarCharts.com and the MTA (Market Technicians Association). Please use this registration link to register! Chart Summit 2017 This will be a massive -free- online charting event. The speaker list is truly exciting including Arthur Hill of StockCharts.com as well! 18 Speakers! Please use this registration link to register! Chart Summit 2017


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Good trading,
Greg Schnell, CMT, MFTA.

 
 
Greg Schnell
About the author: , CMT, MFTA is Chief Technical Analyst at Osprey Strategic specializing in intermarket and commodities analysis. He is also the co-author of Stock Charts For Dummies (Wiley, 2018). Based in Calgary, Greg is a board member of the Canadian Society of Technical Analysts (CSTA) and the chairman of the CSTA Calgary chapter. He is an active member of both the CMT Association and the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA). Learn More