Where Should You Be Playing Crude Oil?

For most retail traders trading crude oil and natural means using tickers like the popular ETF's like USO, OIH, UNG or DIG. But one often over looked company that has been the darling of our hedge fund is NOV, National Oilwell Varco. As the leader in oil rig production for many years through both organic growth as well as Merger and acquisition activity National Oil Varco has stay above support levels for some time giving us safe and consistent profitable swing trades.

One tool we use to watch the trend in NOV is our Smart Scan Chart Analysis technology. And as of this morning [12-6-10] our Smart Scan Analysis still confirms that a strong uptrend is in place for NOV and that the trend remains positive longer term. As always you should trade this strong uptrend with tight money management stops. This kind of rating indicates that NOV is being driven by commercial traders and insiders.

NOV scored +100 on a scale from -100 (strong downtrend) to +100 (strong uptrend). Here is how NOV rated on just a few of our indicators.

+10......Last Hour Close Above 5 Hour Moving Average
+15......New 3 Day High on Friday
+20......Last Price Above 20 Day Moving Average
+25......New 3 Week High, Week Ending Nov. 27th
+30......New 3 Month High in November
+100.....Total Score

Here is a preview of our MarketClub Trade Triangle Chart Analysis and Smart Scan technology system



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