Quote from usman88:
Coming to this current drop in prices(from 48 to 42 today), we had a massive sell off. Retracement to $4550-4600 is very likely(most prolly on friday). Did you guys just looked how oil kept on dropping today and yesterday. It seemed as if oil would certainly go to $30 in a week no matter what. IMO thats exactly how big players operate. They manipulate the rates in such a way to 'force' every small player into shorts and then ka boom...price shoots up.
In the end, my view is that we will be touching 4500-4600 on friday and on monday, even if OPEC does not cuts output, a test of 4850 is certain
We had the retracement one day before( I thought friday). This current move today represents exactly what I said about big players forcing everyone to go short and manipulating the price to shoot up.
'Buy the rumor, sell the fact'
We know normal weekend buying makes the price jump $1-2. Just couple this weekend buying with the fact that traders would be looking forward to OPEC meeting.
I am looking for a $2-3 price jump in the last 5 minutes tomorrow i.e. Friday (and we also close above $50)
And btw the more demand cut IEA and OPEC make, the more bullish it would be for oil. Because it would raise the probability of a significant production cut in the meeting. At least in the mind of all the traders...and thats what matters.