The Canadian Technician

Energy Markets React to $USD Strength

Greg Schnell

Greg Schnell

Chief Technical Analyst, Osprey Strategic

This is the picture of how the energy markets have performed over the last 6 days. Screen Shot 2013-05-14 at 11.09.04 AM
You will notice the date in the top left corner. This chart included the Monday May 13th close.

The $USD recently went on a tear over the last few days.


 

Look at the same chart with a date almost a week ago. This was as of May 8.

Screen Shot 2013-05-14 at 11.08.34 AM

These markets moved significantly when the $USD currency pairs broke out on the charts. I do not see a linkage between the Solar ETF and the currency. 

If you open a month of data, the $USD trended in a range and the commodities worked slightly higher. But when some major support areas on the Aussie and the Yen broke, these commodities really moved.

Its not a daily correlation, but these commodities pushed down hard when the $USD made sudden moves higher.

Good Trading,

Greg Schnell, CMT

 

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