Shell's share price looks broken
Events in the Middle East, and anticipation of what might happen, continue to affect both the price of oil and sector share prices. Independent analyst Alistair Strang assesses the situation at this major player.
29th October 2024 07:43
by Alistair Strang from Trends and Targets
Shell (LSE:SHEL)'s share price has become a little messy, the price needing to close a session above 2,642p to escape the immediate shambolic behaviour.
To be fair, the price is mimicking the cost of crude oil, behaving like a Golden Retriever who wants to go out, so she can want to come in again. Brent crude wants to go down, yet continues to fall into any sort of logical trap as the markets feel determined not to be caught out by a crisis in the Middle East.
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To be blunt, it’s all starting to feel a bit like Ukraine, a global situation where the world has essentially grown bored with what’s going on.
If we pretend optimism, Shell's share price closing a session above 2,642p should be important, potentially triggering share price recovery to an initial 2,800p with our secondary, if bettered, at an unlikely 3,048p and a new high.
More probable, if things intend to go wrong, below 2,400p should next trigger reversal to an initial 2,261 with our secondary, if broken, at 1,959p and hopefully a rebound.
Source: Trends and Targets. Past performance is not a guide to future performance.
Alistair Strang has led high-profile and "top secret" software projects since the late 1970s and won the original John Logie Baird Award for inventors and innovators. After the financial crash, he wanted to know "how it worked" with a view to mimicking existing trading formulas and predicting what was coming next. His results speak for themselves as he continually refines the methodology.
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