Natural Gas Technical Analysis and Near-Term Outlook
The outlook for natural gas remains bearish due to the sustained close below $2.48. This was a highly confluent and crucial wave projection for the January contract and the continuation chart that connects to $2.15 as the next major objective. Near-term odds favor a continued decline and a close below $2.37 will clear the way for $2.33 and likely lower during the next couple of days.
With that said, Monday’s potential intra-day exhaustion gap, today’s inverted hammer, and confirmed weak bullish KasePO, KaseCD, and MACD divergences suggest a bottom might be forming. These signals do not exude a bullish shift in sentiment, but a move above $2.52, the smaller than (0.618) target of the wave up from $2.368, will call for a test of $2.58. Rising to $2.58 would overcome Monday’s gap down and confirm that this was most likely an exhaustion pattern. A close above $2.58 would call for a larger test of resistance with the next thresholds at $2.67 and $2.76.
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