Natural Gas price has shot up over 14% so far this week, propelled by lower-than-expected storage data, hotter weather conditions (Gas is used for cooling as well as heating), reports of high-profile outages in Europe, a substantially weaker US Dollar, and expectations of keener demand from Asia.
XNG/USD is trading marginally higher on Friday, exchanging hands at $2.617 MMBtu, at the time of writing.
Natural Gas price remains in a long-term downtrend ever since turning lower from its peak of $9.960 MMBtu achieved in August 2022. That said, bearish momentum has tapered off considerably since February 2023, as evidenced by the bullish convergence of the Relative Strength Index (RSI) momentum indicator with price, beginning in May. Bullish convergence occurs when price makes new lows but RSI fails to copy. It can be indicative of a bullish reversal brewing.
Nevertheless, unless Natural Gas can break above the last lower high of the long-term downtrend at $3.079 MMBtu, the odds still favor an extension of the bear trend, and shorts over longs.
A break below the $2.110 MMBtu year-to-date lows would solidify the bearish outlook and suggest a continuation down to a target at $1.546 MMBtu, the 61.8% Fibonacci extension of the height of the roughly sideways consolidation range that has unfolded during 2023.
Natural Gas: Weekly Chart
Scoping into the daily chart, it can be seen that price has now broken above both the 50 and not the 100-day Simple Moving Average (SMA), which is a short-term bullish sign.
Natural Gas: Daily Chart
Looking at the 4-hour chart, the pair has been in a short-term uptrend since the start of June 2023, making successively higher highs and higher lows.
Natural Gas: 4-hour Chart
This falls in line with the bullish RSI convergence observed on the weekly chart.
Yet on the 4-hour chart, RSI is now blinking ‘overbought’ (above 70), which is a signal for bulls not to add any new long positions. In the event of RSI exiting the overbought zone and returning to neutral territory, it would be a signal for short-term horizon bulls to close their long positions altogether, and is likely to be indicative of a pullback in price after the recent strong gains.
Supply and demand dynamics are a key factor influencing Natural Gas prices, and are themselves influenced by global economic growth, industrial activity, population growth, production levels, and inventories. The weather impacts Natural Gas prices because more Gas is used during cold winters and hot summers for heating and cooling. Competition from other energy sources impacts prices as consumers may switch to cheaper sources. Geopolitical events are factors as exemplified by the war in Ukraine. Government policies relating to extraction, transportation, and environmental issues also impact prices.
The main economic release influencing Natural Gas prices is the weekly inventory bulletin from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), a US government agency that produces US gas market data. The EIA Gas bulletin usually comes out on Thursday at 14:30 GMT, a day after the EIA publishes its weekly Oil bulletin. Economic data from large consumers of Natural Gas can impact supply and demand, the largest of which include China, Germany and Japan. Natural Gas is primarily priced and traded in US Dollars, thus economic releases impacting the US Dollar are also factors.
The US Dollar is the world’s reserve currency and most commodities, including Natural Gas are priced and traded on international markets in US Dollars. As such, the value of the US Dollar is a factor in the price of Natural Gas, because if the Dollar strengthens it means less Dollars are required to buy the same volume of Gas (the price falls), and vice versa if USD strengthens.
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