Natural Gas Technical Analysis
Natural Gas prices continue to rally following a bullish momentum divergence at the March low, though price seems to be finding some resistance at the psychological $2 mark.
Turning to April, NG has finished positive in 8 of the past 10 Aprils, with an average gain of 3.5%. The first chart below is from Signal Trading Group (@SignalTG). Signal has great seasonality charts, which can be particularly useful when looking for trends in NG. The Signal chart aggregates the trailing 120 months of Natural Gas prices into 1 annualized view with a baseline of 100 on January 1.
Early April has been a great long entry point on the 10-year seasonal chart. NG has tended to rally right until the summer solstice in mid-late June. It may seem counter-intuitive, but Natural Gas prices tends to be weak during the high demand summer and winter months, and strong during many of the lower demand months.
Natural Gas Seasonality (Signal): NG tends to rally from early April through the end of spring.
In the second chart below, you can see how natural gas prices made a lower low while the Relative Strength Index (RSI) made a higher low. This divergence was a good market “tell” that a rally might unfold. That said, any rally may be limited as NG is still operating within the confines of a downtrend.
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