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Technical Analysis
Commodities' Bull Run in Trouble, if Not Over
By Jim Wyckoff - Street.com
8/8/2008 6:32 AM EDT
The month of July was brutal to the raw-commodity-market bulls -- the worst month in three decades, in fact. For example, crude oil prices dropped by around $25 a barrel from a record high. Grain futures prices sold off sharply and established fresh price downtrends, and gold has now received a haircut to the tune of over $100 an ounce from the mid-July high.
There are now, finally, significant longer-term technical clues that the general bull market run in commodity markets has peaked out. The best way to gauge the overall health of the raw-commodity sector is to examine a chart for the Continuous Commodity Index (CCI), a basket of 19 raw-commodity-futures prices. In July, the CCI saw its biggest one-month drop in 30 years. Additionally, the CCI has seen a downtrend develop on the daily bar chart. The weekly chart has also seen a sharp downturn that has negated an up-trend line on that chart.
CCI - Weekly Chart |
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Source: Futuresource and TradingEducation.com |
Crude oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange have seen prices back way off from the all-time high of $147.27 in July. Prices just this week closed below key technical support at $120 a barrel, which produced more chart damage.
Bears do have near-term downside technical momentum on their side, as the psychology of this market has changed the past couple weeks. It has gone from a "buy the dip" psychology that had been in place since January to one of "sell the rallies."
The speculative money is flowing heavily out of the crude oil market, which is also significantly bearish not only for crude oil but for the other raw commodity futures markets, as well.
Crude Oil Futures - Weekly Chart |
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Source: Futuresource and TradingEducation.com |
The U.S. dollar has seen a solid price rebound vs. its major counterparts the past few weeks. If the dollar continues to strengthen, that would be another nail in the coffin of the commodity-market bulls. The greenback bulls have gained some fresh near-term technical momentum recently, as an uptrend is in place on the daily bar chart for the U.S. dollar index, which is a basket of major currencies weighted against the U.S. dollar.
The weekly continuation chart for nearby U.S. dollar index futures also shows that while one downtrend line has been penetrated on the upside and negated, there are still two more longer-term downtrend lines in place. Importantly, the nearby dollar-index futures prices have pushed right up to longer-term technical support located at the 74.60 area.
If prices push above that key technical resistance level, then the bulls would begin to gain some longer-term technical strength to begin to suggest that a major market low is in place. The next two weeks of trading action in the U.S. dollar index futures will be extra important.
U.S. Dollar Index - Weekly Chart |
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Source: Futuresource and TradingEducation.com |
Price action in the commodity markets during July also reinforces notions that there was no major "paradigm shift" in the raw-commodity sector of the world economy that would have suggested a prolonged period of sky-high commodity prices -- without any significant downside "correction" in those prices. Indeed, it now appears that the historical commodity market cycle of "boom" and "bust" will continue to play out.
The commodity-market bulls can still argue the downside price action during the month of July was just a strong corrective pullback in a major bull market run that is still alive. However, if that is the case, then the recently beaten-down commodity markets will need to exhibit strong price recoveries before this year ends.
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