WTI Price Analysis: Oil Prices Recover Ground from Nearly Year-Old Lows

The Oil price rebounded on Thursday after four consecutive days of declinebuoyed by hopes that the relaxation of anti-COVID measures in China will revive demand and by signs that some tankers carrying Russian oil have suffered delays after the G7 price cap took effect.

China announced changes to its anti-COVID policy on Wednesday as at least 20 oil tankers experienced delays crossing into the Mediterranean from Russia’s Black Sea ports, Reuters reports.

The WTI recovered close to a dollar and a half from the almost a year low of $71.98 reached late Wednesday to the daily high of $73.44 tested in the early hours of Thursday. At this moment, the WTI is trading at $72.59, gaining 0.02% daily.

For his part, he Brent crude traced the same run, rising from $77.11 to today’s high of $78.54. At time of writing, it is showing flat on the day around $77.61.

WTI Technical Levels

WTI US OIL

Panorama
Last Price Today 72.75
Today’s Daily Change 0.17
Today’s Daily Change % 0.23
Today’s Daily Open 72.58
Trends
20 Daily SMA 80.31
SMA of 50 Daily 84.02
SMA of 100 Daily 86.47
SMA of 200 Daily 96.35
levels
Previous Daily High 75.49
Minimum Previous Daily 71.99
Previous Weekly High 83.3
Previous Weekly Minimum 73.66
Maximum Prior Monthly 92.92
Minimum Prior Monthly 73.66
Daily Fibonacci 38.2% 73.33
Daily Fibonacci 61.8% 74.15
Daily Pivot Point S1 71.21
Daily Pivot Point S2 69.85
Daily Pivot Point S3 67.71
Daily Pivot Point R1 74.72
Daily Pivot Point R2 76.86
Daily Pivot Point R3 78.22

Source: Fx Street

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