Market Review 14 April 2020

by Constantinos Loizou

  • The price of Crude Oil swung between gains and losses on Monday 13th April 2020, after the historical decision of reducing oil production

Commodities yesterday:

Gold: +2.95%

Silver: +2.69%

Palladium: +1.35%

Platinum: +2.15%

Crude Oil: +0.67%

Natural Gas: +0.35%

Copper: +1.63%

 

  • After the positive figures of last week, US Stocks yesterday closed with an average loss of 0.60%

American Indices yesterday

Dow Jones 30: -1.39%

S&P 500: -1.01%

Nasdaq 100: +0.48%

 

  • In today’s Economic calendar we can expect to see some volatility in the USD, as at 12:30 (GMT) the US Department of Labor will release their Import Price Index
  • Those figures show the changes in prices of imported products into the USA
  • The result is expected to a further decrease to -1.7%, considering the last month was at -0.5%

 

On the Charts

 

  • The German DAX 30, after the sharp downward movement from the previous month, it has broken the blue downward trendline to the upside
  • The index formed and completed a failure swing reversal formation since it created higher lows and higher highs after the bottom in mid-March
  • Price is now at 10,745 higher than the previous support level 10,100 (blue dashed line), and above the 20 days Moving Average
  • The RSI indicator is above 50 and the MACD signal line (red) crossed the MACD to the upside, showing some reaction to an upside attitude in the momentum
  • Nevertheless, there is a possibility to see the price moving higher to test the 11,630 level - the previous resistance level and the 61.8% Fibonacci Retracement Level (From13,825 to 7,943)
  • Alternatively, if the price breaks below the blue dashed line, at 10,100, we may see the DAX testing the previous support at 9,300 level