Iron Ore DCE May Daily Technical Review Dec 28th

Verdict – Short-term neutral to bearish. DCE iron ore retreated after rejection below important resistance at 1069.5 last Friday. Mid-run iron ore consolidate between 992.0-1069.5 area. However a breakdown on 990.5-992.0 area would indicate a potential reversal to bearish territory in long-run. Hourly CCI corrected from one week high to one week low during one …

Daily Ferrous Physical Review Dec 28th

Ferrous Market –    Steelbank Inventory: construction steel inventories 2.87 million tonnes, down 3.55% w-o-w. HRC 1.39 million tonnes, up 12.65% w-o-w –    China January to November above scale industry companies net profit 5.74 trillion yuan, up 2.4% y-o-y, up 1.7% compared to January to October. Ferrous and steel pressing down 9.9% y-o-y. –    The flat …

Iron Ore DCE May Daily Technical Review Dec 25th

Verdict – Short-term neutral. DCE iron ore rejected by 1069.5, the important resistance level. From hourly chart, hourly MACD created gold cross. Slow stochastic KD widened and increase. CCI created new high during the week. Technical signals were indicating potential to create new high. The first support is 1005.0. The first resistance is 1069.5

Daily Ferrous Physical Review Dec 24th

Ferrous Market –    Tangshan 10 sample steel mills pig iron before tax 2702 yuan/tonne, billet cost 3474 yuan/tonne, up 110 yuan/tonne w-o-w. Gross profit 396 yuan/tonne, up 100 yuan/tonne. –    China will reduce some waste metal custom tax to 0. Mongolia coke custom tax reduced from 5% to 2.5%. –    MySteel Rebar Inventory: Rebar production …

Iron Ore DCE May Daily Technical Review Dec 24th

Verdict – Short-term neutral. DCE iron ore spiked and retreat from the high during last trading hour. Iron ore consolidate in the range 1027.5- 1059.0 area in short-run potentially. Hourly slow stochastic KD potentially create dead cross. Hourly MACD flattened during last two hours. Technical signals were indicating neutral. The first support is 1127.5. The …

Daily Ferrous Physical Review Dec 23rd

Ferrous Market –    Ganggu Construction Steel Inventory: production 5.31 million tonnes, up 40,100 tonnes w-o-w. Mills inventory 4.46 million tonnes, up 47,800 tonnes w-o-w. Circulation inventory 5.58 million tonnes, down 92,600 tonnes w-o-w. –    MySteel Australia and Brazil iron ore total delivery at 25.17 million tonnes, up 2.45 million tonnes w-o-w. Australia iron ore delivery …

Iron Ore DCE May Daily Technical Review Dec 23rd

Verdict – Short-term neutral to bearish. DCE iron ore decreased total 10% open interest from Tuesday and Wednesday. From hourly candles, iron ore potentially created a roof area and face mid-run level reversal from peak area. Hourly MACD was narrowing below 0 axis. Hourly candles were continuously decreasing the volatility. Hourly slow stochastic KD created …

Daily Ferrous Physical Review Dec 21st

Ferrous Market –    Municipality of Brumadinho, Minas Gerais,have suspended for 7 days, or until the facts of the December 18 accident are clarified.A Vale miner Corrego do Feijao landslide in 18th caused 1 death. However Vale claimed the impact is not included in the production target since this miner is closed after the dam collapse …

Iron Ore DCE May Daily Technical Review Dec 21st

Verdict – Short-term neutral to bullish. DCE iron ore continued the market squeeze and the intra-day high was only 50 cents from limit up. Both SHFE rebar and SHFE HRC reached limit up. A stand on the upper side of the gap at 1100.0 from hourly chart would indicate iron ore potentially maintain strong. The …