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Yep . I went short wti after it broke below 50 and could not get back above. also gold has ground its way above 1250 today during asian session. seems little selling pressure and I expect COT to show reduced shorts.

 

[ducati916]

Yep . I went short wti after it broke below 50 and could not get back above. also gold has ground its way above 1250 today during asian session. seems little selling pressure and I expect COT to show reduced shorts.

I'll have to update the Gold COT.

All the excitement has been in oil just recently. But yes, Gold seems to be quietly moving higher without any fanfare, probably the best way to do so.

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duc

 

[ducati916]

Yep . I went short wti after it broke below 50 and could not get back above. also gold has ground its way above 1250 today during asian session. seems little selling pressure and I expect COT to show reduced shorts.

So I joined you in Gold yesterday [last night].



Still SHORT oil.

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[ducati916]

So things have started to move [lower] for the NFLX trade.



So currently I'll do nothing. I'm thinking to adjust at $200 if it reaches that level.

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[ducati916]

So with Christmas around the corner, what to do with my open futures trades. I have traded through Christmas before, but once I got killed in a convergence trade where the 'spread' ballooned. It was Walmart and Target.

So I have just closed Oil/Gold. While I would like to have kept them both open, too risky for me, especially sitting on fat profits.

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[ducati916]

News,

OPEC members suffering from low oil prices. With Brent in the mid-$50s, the budgets for OPEC members will come under strain, and perhaps only Kuwait can see its budget breakeven. Low prices could sow unrest in several OPEC member states. “At current prices, too much attention on shale, not enough on OPEC,” Olivier Jakob, managing director at Swiss consultant Petromatrix GmbH, told Bloomberg. Libya and Algeria, for instance, need oil prices above $100 per barrel. Even Saudi Arabia needs oil north of $80 per barrel for its budget to breakeven.

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[ducati916]

This is the COT chart from the past week [so 2 wks old now].

What you can see is the tremendous amount of selling from the Commercials. As previously stated, the Commercials buy/sell oil from the Producers.

With so many of the OPEC producers needing the petro-dollar to support their economies, it would look as if they have sold as much production and forward production into the market to get the best price, given how far, how fast, price has fallen.

This week's COT numbers will be out soon. It will be interesting to see if this level of panic remains. By all accounts shale oil can be profitable far lower than OPEC oil.


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[ducati916]

So this week's COT is at (-109,384) a 5% increase in the short position.

I will be expecting further weakness in the POO.

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[ducati916]

So this week's COT is at (-109,384) a 5% increase in the short position.

I will be expecting further weakness in the POO.

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duc

You know when you just wish you had held that position!



Down to $42 and change. Well the COT did signal the potential decline.

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[ducati916]

The trick will be trying to get back in short, as this could be heading for thirty something.

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[ducati916]

Oil trading again, looking for a SHORT entry somewhere around the $43 mark.

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[ducati916]

SHORT oil at $45.63

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[ducati916]

Stopped out for a loss.

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[ducati916]

Try SHORT once more at $46.05

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[ducati916]

Close and take profit.

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[dutchie]

Heard of this trick before Duc?

Australian trader pleads guilty to 'spoofing' in Chicago

An Australian commodities trader pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Chicago to manipulating market prices by placing orders in the millions of dollars, then canceling them within milliseconds so that he could sell smaller orders at a profit.

http://www.kcbd.com/2018/12/26/australian-trader-pleads-guilty-spoofing-chicago/

 

[ducati916]

Heard of this trick before Duc?

Australian trader pleads guilty to 'spoofing' in Chicago

An Australian commodities trader pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Chicago to manipulating market prices by placing orders in the millions of dollars, then canceling them within milliseconds so that he could sell smaller orders at a profit.

http://www.kcbd.com/2018/12/26/australian-trader-pleads-guilty-spoofing-chicago/

No not really. Seems a big risk for [him] small rewards.

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[ducati916]

I'll be looking to exit the mini ES tonight. I'm [hoping] momentum will carry it a little higher. The site [forum] went down this morning for a time.



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[ducati916]

All out.

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[ducati916]

Long Soybeans at $872.25

I like this trade for a swing trade. But New Year etc. So I'll see how it goes.

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