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Natural Gas at major support around $2.60 MMBtu

Natural Gas three year chart showing major support around $2.60.

The following is an excellent site for research: Natural Gas Weekly Update

Weekly natural gas rig count

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“What is the major tend? What is the intermediate trend? What is the near-term trend?”
Note:This technical analysis is for educational purposes. Please conduct your own analysis or consult a financial advisor before making investment decisions. The author of this article may hold long or short positions in the featured stocks or indexes.
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Western Canadian Select (WCS) price differential on December 15, 2017 with WTI is ($57.30-32.75) $24.55 USD/bbl and the near-term trend is a projected increase in the differential

Western Canadian Select chart showing the differential with WTI

There are two major negative factors affecting the price of WCS and thus increasing the the price differential. The first is new production coming on stream and the second is the pipeline constraint to export WCS to the U.S. market.

Click here for a live and larger version of the above chart.

There are over 300 benchmark streams of crude oil produced around the world. The most commonly referenced US benchmark is West Texas Intermediate (WTI), priced out of Cushing, Oklahoma. WTI is lighter and sweeter than the international benchmark, North Sea Brent, which is priced out of Sullom Voe, Scotland.

The two most popular Canadian benchmarks are Canadian Light and Western Canadian Select. WCS is a heavy sour blend while Canadian Light is a light sweet crude, similar in quality to WTI.

Click hear for an explanation of WCS.

This link provides an historical chart of the WCS price differential with WTI.

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“Technical Analysis is about identifying and following the appropriate trend.”
Note:This technical analysis is for educational purposes. Please conduct your own analysis or consult a financial advisor before making investment decisions. The author of this article may hold long or short positions in the featured stocks or indexes.
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Potash (POT.TO) intermediate uptrend at major resistance

Potash at major resistance on the weekly chart.

http://www.potashcorp.com/investors/

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“Technical Analysis is about identifying and following the appropriate trend.”
Note:This technical analysis is for educational purposes. Please conduct your own analysis or consult a financial advisor before making investment decisions. The author of this article may hold long or short positions in the featured stocks or indexes.
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Nasdaq hits a record joining the Dow and S&P 500

Nasdaq hits a record and now joins the Dow and S&P 500.

Nasdaq Hits a Record

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“Technical Analysis is about identifying and following the appropriate trend.”
Note:This technical analysis is for educational purposes. Please conduct your own analysis or consult a financial advisor before making investment decisions. The author of this article may hold long or short positions in the featured stocks or indexes.
© 2017 TradeOnline.ca

TSX Index MarketCarpet for past 23 days

TSX Index marketcarpet snowing the sector performance.

MarketCarpets are great for visually scanning and ranking a large collection of stocks at once, or quickly finding the best and worst performers for a given time period. They are designed to be graphically efficient and are especially useful for sector analysis. Like securities, market sectors also trend, and MarketCarpets are a fantastic tool for identifying the strength of a sector. Analysts can then use MarketCarpets to determine the strong securities within the sector.

http://stockcharts.com/docs/doku.php?id=other-tools:marketcarpets

Click here for a live version of the chart.

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“Technical Analysis is about identifying and following the appropriate trend.”
Note:This technical analysis is for educational purposes. Please conduct your own analysis or consult a financial advisor before making investment decisions. The author of this article may hold long or short positions in the featured stocks or indexes.
© 2017 TradeOnline.ca

What did the trader on the NYSE see today?

NYSE trader with a premonition.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets/world-stocks-lower-u-s-treasury-yield-gap-shrinks-idUSKBN1E803L

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“Technical Analysis is about identifying and following the appropriate trend.”
Note:This technical analysis is for educational purposes. Please conduct your own analysis or consult a financial advisor before making investment decisions. The author of this article may hold long or short positions in the featured stocks or indexes.
© 2017 TradeOnline.ca

Bitcoin chart 2010 to 2017 which is $100 to $24,540,143

Bitcoin long-term chart for 2010 to 2017

https://www.coindesk.com/price/

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“Technical Analysis is about identifying and following the appropriate trend.”
Note:This technical analysis is for educational purposes. Please conduct your own analysis or consult a financial advisor before making investment decisions. The author of this article may hold long or short positions in the featured stocks or indexes.
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Canadian dollar testing major support near $0.7700

Canadian dollar testing major support at $0.7700 which is near the 200-day moving average.

Canadian Dollar 3-Year Weekly Chart

Reference my last post on the Canadian dollar.

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“Technical Analysis is about identifying and following the appropriate trend.”
Note:This technical analysis is for educational purposes. Please conduct your own analysis or consult a financial advisor before making investment decisions. The author of this article may hold long or short positions in the featured stocks or indexes.
© 2017 TradeOnline.ca