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Natural Gas – The “Slow Process that's Gathering Speed”

The U.S. dollar hasn't had the same impact on the natural gas price like it has for oil, copper, and other commodity prices.

What's different, says technical analyst and newsletter writer Donald Dony, is the North American natural gas price.

Instead, it’s more fundamentals that are driving price actions, compared to other mainstream commodities. And here’s what his charts are telling him on where natural gas prices are headed:

“Natural gas is still trading within a range. It has gone right up to top of range, at US$4-$4.50 (per thousand cubic feet, or mcf). There is a lot of price resistance there. It looks like we’re not going to go much further than this.”

“But saying that, we are in an upward band from May of last year, with higher highs and higher lows. We’re doing fine from that perspective. So I don’t think you’re going to see a big pullback in natural gas prices. Maybe $3.80-$4.00 but I don’t see it much lower than that.

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“Natural gas has changed its trend. Now it’s just a slow process that’s gathering speed. BUT—there is a mountain of price resistance here. I think it’s going to level off but not fall back to $2.25/mcf or anything.

“This is interesting—if you look at fundamentals you could say it will go back under $2 as there is so much supply. But the market is anticipating more demand. It’s probably stalling at this juncture, but you have to see it below $3 to see it crater to $2 and I don’t see that happening.”

“What I expect we will see is a gradual rise up to $4.75-$5.00 this year. If natural gas breaks above $5.00 then the target goes to $6.50. But I am not betting this will happen given the high inventory levels and huge ongoing supply.”

Even if there are low prices in a given sector, there are almost always good buys to be had, he says.
“There are always leaders within a sector, and those are the ones you need to find. They’re the ones that keep going forward.”

Here are some of the leading stocks in the natural gas sector, according to Dony, including where investors could be looking...

Tourmaline Oil Corp—TOU-TSX; TRMLF-PINK–TOU is one of those leaders. It looks like it’s in a great uptrend. If the overall market holds, it’s still going higher, it looks great—my target is $48.

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Peyto Exploration and Development—PEY-TSX; PEYUF-PINK—This is another leader, though we could see it hang under $28 for next couple of months. My first target is $32.

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NuVista—NVA-TSX; NUVSF-PINK—is closely following natgas prices, which is trending up. The stock has broken above a level ($6.00) which for five months investors would not pay that much.

Now, with rising natgas prices, they are willing to pay more for NVA. And around $6.00 should act as the price support level (and good buy-in opportunity) on any retracement. $9.50 is the first target.

Disclosure: Donald Dony nor Keith Schaefer own stock in any companies mentioned, nor have any business relationship with them.

By. Keith Schaefer, Publisher, the Oil and Gas Investments Bulletin


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