{"id":3370,"date":"2014-12-21T20:34:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T01:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2014-12-21T20:37:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T01:37:37","slug":"oftwominds-charles-hugh-smith-maybe-oil-goes-to-70-on-its-way-to-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3370","title":{"rendered":"oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Maybe Oil Goes to $70 on its Way to $40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/charleshughsmith.blogspot.ca\/2014\/12\/maybe-oil-goes-to-70-on-its-way-to-40.html\">oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Maybe Oil Goes to $70 on its Way to $40<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline; height: 0px; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding: 1px 0px 1px 0px; margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><i style=\"background-color: white; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">A retrace that fills open gaps and kisses the 50-day moving average surprises everyone who was confident oil was heading straight down to $40\/barrel.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><b style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" \/><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><b style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">When the conventional media ordains oil inevitably dropping to $40\/barrel, I start looking for something else to happen&#8211;like oil going to $70\/barrel.<\/b>\u00a0There are number of reasons this isn&#8217;t as farfetched as it might seem at the moment.<\/span><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><b style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">1. The huge gap begging to be filled on the chart of the Energy Select Sector exchange-traded fund XLE<\/b>\u00a0and a bunch of other energy-sector stocks and etfs. Gaps like this usually get filled sooner rather than later.<\/span><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 5px; margin: 5px; border: 1px solid #eeeeee;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oftwominds.com\/photos2014\/XLE12-14.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><b style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" \/><\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><b style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">2. A bounce back to the 50-day moving average on the WTI oil index around $73 would be unsurprising.<\/b>\u00a0As the old saying has it,\u00a0<i style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">nothing goes down in a straight line<\/i>, and since oil fell in a parabolic curve down, some sort of retrace to a key technical level of resistance is to be expected.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml>\n <o:OfficeDocumentSettings>\n  <o:AllowPNG\/>\n <\/o:OfficeDocumentSettings>\n<\/xml><![endif]--> <!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml>\n <w:WordDocument>\n  <w:View>Normal<\/w:View>\n  <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n  <w:TrackMoves\/>\n  <w:TrackFormatting\/>\n  <w:PunctuationKerning\/>\n  <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas\/>\n  <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>\n  <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent>\n  <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>\n  <w:DoNotPromoteQF\/>\n  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