The second week of the year is usually about Commodity Index
rebalancing. During this process Commodity Index funds adjust their portfolios
to those indices they follow. This often results in buying the worse performing
commodities and selling the high performers. Some commodities may see a short
term bounce or drop but without fundamental support any correction will be
short lived
Oil
The main topic on the ooil markets is the increasing
compliance of OPEC members with the extented agreement to cap oil production,
although this is in some cases forced by external factors as in case of
Venezuela. How ever the effect is the same, at the ned of the equation
containing less supply and rising demand the result can be only hogher prices.
The positive mood is also supported by overall rise of manufacturing activity.
The Energy sector overall maybe not loking that bright due to low Natural gas prices
but the oil bulls seem to be driven by strong fundamentals. However WTI is
currently testing a key resistance (or rather the top of resistance zone) which
could be hard to break as technical sellers will increase activity – also dont
forget about rebalancing as crude had a very good year in 2017 and positions
need to be adjusted.
Weekly Chart WTI Crude
Corn
Grains in general had a bad year despite several attempts to
bounce, no real trend reversal took place. The high ending stocks and concerns
about weak US exports pushing prices down. There are fears that the USDA Wasde
report will bring another weak export data although on the spot market the
export premiums seem to move despite missing any support of freight prices.
After corn prices drop again below 350 this opens the room for testing 340 or
even 330 in the coming weeks.
Weekly Chart Chicago Corn Futures
Sugar
With the cancelled European sugar quotas the market doesn‘t
have a bright future ahead. The prices in Europe are still strongly diverging
from the global sugar markets altough the move will have to come after the
minimum sugar prices in Europe where also ending with the quota system. The
prices tested 15.50 twice and recently dropped back. Give the oversupply and
missing any short term weather threats, sugar will probably revisit the bottom
of the uptrend channel which could be also broken on the way to tes new lows
this year however the prices at or below production cost will bring drop in
supplies in the long run.
Weekly Chart Sugar No 11
Good Luck and remember to watch your risk and be consistent.
Mr. Tech Man
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