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COPPER Technical Analysis - COPPER Trading: 2017-01-31

Indonesia plans to allow copper exports

Indonesia is planning to issue a temporary permit for copper concentrate export from Grasberg field For the US Freeport McMoRan company. Will copper continue falling in price?

Freeport McMoRan is global leader in copper production. Ore is extracted in the Grasberg field each month to smelt into 70mln pounds of the metal which is around 2% of global production. This volume will reappear in global markets. A ban on copper ore and concentrate exports was introduced by government of Indonesia on January 12, 2014 in order to support the local copper smelting plants. The export permit for Freeport McMoRan may be issed for 6 months. The additional negative for copper is that investors may start taking profits ahead of Trump’s release of his plans to support the US economy. His first acts concerned not economy but migration. The major improvement of global demand for copper is taking place in China, according to International Copper Study Group. Thus, Chinese economic data may affect copper prices. They will start coming out after the Lunar New Year. In particular, on Wednesday February 1 the Manufacturing PMI for January will come out in China, the tentative outlook is moderately negative.

Copper

On the daily chart Copper: D1 is correcting within the triangle. Thus, the short position may be opened when the copper leaves the triangle to move down. Copper prices may fall in case of higher export from Indonesia and weak economic data in China.

  • The Parabolic gives bearish signal.
  • The Bollinger bands have widened which means higher volatility.
  • The RSI is above 50. It has formed negative divergence.
  • The MACD gives bearish signals.

The bearish momentum may develop in case the Copper falls below the last fractal low and the support of the triangle 2.58. This level may serve the point of entry. The initial stop-loss may be placed above the 20-month high, the upper boundary of triangle and the Parabolic signal at 2.75. Having opened the pending order we shall move the stop to the next fractal high following the Parabolic and Bollinger signals. Thus, we are changing the probable profit/loss ratio to the breakeven point. The most risk-averse traders may switch to the 4-hour chart after the trade and place there a stop-loss moving it in the direction of the trade. If the price meets the stop-loss level at 2.75 without reaching the order at 2.58, we recommend cancelling the position: the market sustains internal changes which were not taken into account.

Summary of technical analysis

PositionSell
Sell stopbelow 2.58
Stop lossabove 2.75

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