Around The Barrel - Crude Oil Stocks Rose For a Fifth Week as Gasoline Demand Continues To Recover

Details: Written by TradersCom; Category: Energy; Published: 24 March 2021

EIA reported another build in crude of + 1912 kbbl (including a 203kbbl build at Cushing). In a volatile week specs bought WTI to 393k, a fresh 32-month high just ahead of a sharp fall in prices. Gasoline demand continues to grow. Gasoline stocks fell -1935kbbl and Utilization recovered another 5.5% to 80.6%. Production rose 100k to 11,000 kbpd

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DOE Weekly Petroleum Status Report: 3/17/21

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Release Time: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 10:30 A.M. (ET)

	EIA	Expected	Prior EIA	API
Crude	+1912k	+910k	+2396k	-1047k
Cushing	+203k	-352k	-624k	-246k
Gasoline	-1935k	+1100k	+472k	-926k
Distillate	+3806k	-100k	+255k	+904k

Note in bbls *exp = Reuters poll est adjusted for API shift, except Cushing

Refinery Utilization +7.1% to 75.1% Exp +7.3%
Production UNCH at 10,900 mbpd (13.10 ATH)

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WTI Crude Oil Futures Weekly Chart Outlook via @KnovaWave

WTI spiked higher over $68 Last week to complete a 5 wave structure and test min targets after broke the topside of the channel it had been in since September, In any break, the key is crowd behavior to help tell the story which in energy is often around often geopolitics. We watch ABC corrections and from here we get the energy from the break being balanced. This week that was powered by the Tenkan Spit of a spit. Support is the Tenkan, old channel & prev high confluence. Watch Kijun & 50 dma.. Resistance MM and previous lows.

WTI D 3 19 2021

WTI continued higher after it rebalanced chikou indicative of extreme crowd behavior reverseing at 7/8 after the series of fractals at last Dec wave 1 turn after we had completed 5 waves as marked, from here we watched 3 & 5 waves develop. Price popped after the spit of the 50wma (green) which is now key for support as Tenkan touched Kijun in a kiss of life. Given that we had tremendous energy which bore out in the hghs last seen 2019.

These are special times, recall "After we regained the pattern 261.8% from the extreme (-$40) move. The climax of the larger acceleration lower after broke the weekly uptrend, a fractal of the sharp and all the way to all time lows to negative pricing we have seen mirror replications." Support is previous channels, tenkan and Kijun. Above we have Murrey Math time and price

WTI W 3 19 2021

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Specs bought WTI (+2.3k lots to 393k), a fresh 32-month high while the Brent long (-5.8k to 334k) was cut for a second week. Overall the combined net long held steady for a fifth week at 727k lots, just days before prices plunged the most since Sept. Concerns about OPEC+ action to stem the oil price slide and the bounce on Friday helped reduce the risk of further technical hedge fund selling. Continued buying of refined fuel products lifted the net long in gasoline, distillate and gas oil to a 14-mth high at 194k lots

' COT on commodities inin week to March 16 saw third consecutive (small) reduction. Overall a mixed bag with no clear thread. Biggest increases in #corn #gold and fuel while selling hit #natgas #wheat and #copper

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