Fundamentalists Talk Down Oil Prices, As Technical Analysts See A Sustained Move

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Mark Melin
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A few  weeks ago everyone was talking about the death of oil with one infamous pundit possibly referring to his own death. How much sentiment for oil prices has changed in a few weeks… With oil moving to $40 per barrel and holding – much of the move being attributed to technical factors – has an important mid-term bottom put in? Were those sometimes loud predictions that touted $30 and even $20 per barrel oil wrong? Or is a production freeze agreed to by OPEC and Russia doomed to fail? Those fundamentalists currently deriding the jump in oil prices as a…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.