February Live Cattle
I have taken the liberty of altering the lyrics of the iconic cowboy campfire song Home on the Range in an attempt to capture the current mood of the live cattle market. In early week trading action prices continued their downward path to finish down 1.650 at 123.025 just off day’s low of 122.650. We have now hit the .382 retracement from the August lows and are just off the .786 from the fourth wave bottom of 119.050. Also of interest is the fact that momentum divergence is visible in the lower time-frame price charts. All this leads me to favor the market establishing a short term low somewhere in this area. Today’s extreme came in on the hourly channel-line and any press should find near term support at +/- 123.300. If a rebound were to develop I’d expect it to be of an non-impulsive nature. Cross zone resistance comes in between 125.700-126. If the price path taken were to lay out in a three wave pattern one should be looking for a rejection off this level. Looking out a few sessions I wouldn’t rule out a choppy trade up to the +/- 128 level. My overall target projection in February comes in at +/-119.500. My suggested strategy would be to stalk out any rebound for the previously mentioned structural clues converging with the established retracement targets.
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