Natural Gas is Not Breaking Higher

Natural Gas ($NG_F, $UNG) is a cyclical commodity. Well that is what everyone think. Rising in the winter as demand grows to heat homes and falling in the summer as the planet heats up. That may have been the case historically but not the last two years. It has remained cyclical, but only in terms of trades trying to pick a bottom in it. This cycle is much shorter, about 4-5 weeks. The last time we checked in on Natural Gas in mid May it was showing signs of a potential reversal. With trader interest peaking again it has yet to follow through on that potential and is showing signs of a fizzle. The daily chart below shows the latest pullback in mid-May after failing to reach the previous high from January and February. The low in June and reversal higher immediately bring to mind a

possible Inverse Head and Shoulders. A break of the neckline near 2.73 would bring a price objective of at least 3.60. That would certainly make the bull case. But it is weakening, printing a Dark Cloud Cover candle pattern with the Relative Strength Index kinking back lower. Moving out to the weekly picture shows the latest week pulling back at the center-line of the old symmetrical triangle and lower than the previous high. Non of this precludes the breakout of Natural Gas higher. But equally as important none of it is a buy signal either. There is at least a basing going on. That basing could reverse higher or as we have seen many times in the past few years it could as easily continue lower. There is nothing to do here on the long side until the January to February high is taken out.

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