Iron Ore DCE May Daily Technical Review 22/1/21

Verdict – Short-term neutral to bearish DCE iron ore corrected during the day and iron ore had entered a narrower consolidation range since the first day of January. Major range in 1035.5- 1084.5. Hourly MACD dead cross. Hourly slow stochastic KD created dead cross below overbought area. CCI slumped from monthly high to weak area …

Ferrous Daily Physical Review 21/1/21

Ferrous Market –    MySteel Rebar Inventory: Rebar production 3.445 million tonnes, down 0.25% w-o-w. Mills inventory 2.89 million tonnes, up 4.61% w-o-w. Circulation inventory 4.80 million tonnes, up 12.98% w-o-w. –    Ganggu Construction Steel Inventory: production 5.03 million tonnes, down 91,800 tonnes w-o-w. Mills inventory 5.56 million tonnes, up 293,900 tonnes w-o-w. Circulation inventory 6.83 …

Iron Ore DCE May Daily Technical Review 21/1/21

Verdict – Short-term neutral. DCE iron ore rebounded and closed slight higher than yesterday. The intra-day high still had some distance to next resistance at 1084.5. Iron ore consolidated within a narrower range after the beginning of Jan. Hourly MACD created gold cross. Hourly CCI created new high after Jan 7th. Technical signals were indicating …

Ferrous Daily Physical Review 20/1/21

Ferrous Market –    BHP Pilbara iron ore production 70.4 million tonnes, down 5% from Q3, up 3% y-o-y. Year 2020 iron ore production 288 million tonnes, up 6% y-o-y. Q4 sales 70.77 million tonnes, down 4% from Q3, up 2% y-o-y. Year 2020 sales 290 million tonnes, up 6% y-o-y. BHP fiscal year 2021 iron …

Iron Ore DCE May Daily Technical Review 20/1/21

Verdict – Short-term neutral. DCE iron ore rebounded slightly from last closing with decreased volume. Iron ore still stuck in a consolidation range from 1035.5- 1084.5 area. Hourly MACD potentially create gold cross. Hourly slow stochastic KD was widening. Technical signals were neutral currently. The first support is 1035.5. The first resistance is 1084.5

Ferrous Daily Physical Review 18/1/21

Ferrous Market –    China National Bureau of Statistics: China 2020 crude steel production 1.05 billion tonnes, up 5.2% y-o-y. Pig iron production 887.52 million tonnes, up 4.3% y-o-y. Steel production 1.32 billion tonnes, up 7.7% y-o-y. –    A fire that broke out early Thursday at one of Vale’s ship loaders in northern Brazil was contained …

Iron Ore DCE May Daily Technical Review 18/1/21

Verdict – Short-term neutral. DCE iron ore created new high since 22/12/2020. Currently iron ore created three dojis during last three hours from hourly chart, indicating the rebound was exhausted at the moment. However in mid-run iron ore created 1069.5- 1079 – 1084.5, higher highs over the new year. Thus mid-run was in neutral to …

China Wuxi Cobalt Index Weekly Technical Review 18/1/21

Verdict – Short-term Bearish. China Wuxi Cobalt corrected significantly during the early Asian morning session with increasing volume. The slow stochastic KD created dead cross on overbought area in Jan 15th. CCI created double top in Jan 15th. Daily MACD was narrowing and potentially create dead cross in next few trading hours. Daily candles created …

Ferrous Daily Physical Review 15/1/21

Ferrous Market –    MySteel 45 ports iron ore inventories at 124.12 million tonnes, up 1.45 million tonnes w-o-w. Daily evacuation 2.97 million tonnes, down 57,600 tonnes w-o-w. Australia iron ore 58.69 million tonnes, up 95,000 tonnes w-o-w. Brazil iron ore 41.94 million tonnes, up 1.50 million tonnes w-o-w. 172 ships at ports, up 13. –    …