Crude Oil Looks Like It Has Bottomed
       (C) 2015 William Schmidt, Ph.D. www.tigersoft.com All Rights Reserved
                          1/30/2015
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   Crude Oil bottoms typically occur when Professionals shift from being net sellers
   and become net buyers.  Professionals on Wall Street know first.   They know a
   bottom has been made long before the headlines tell the average investor or consumer. 
   For informed investors this simple insight can be very profitable.   That's because
   Our TigerSoft Closing Power tells investors when Professionals make this shift. 
   TigerSoft's Closing Power measures what professionals are doing.  When the (blue)
   Closing Power is falling, they are net sellers and when the Closing Power is rising,
   they are net buyers.  It follows from this that we can expect the declining trend in
   Closing Power to come to an end almost exactly when Crude Oil prices are about
   to reverse and go up significantly.  And sure enough, this is exactly what we find when
   we study the past and look at every significant bottom in Crude Oil since 1980.. 

   First consider the Crude Oil year's Chart for 1/30/2015.  See how the blue
   Closing Power has just broken its downtrend.  This is quite bullish for Crude Oil
   in our opinion.

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   Study the charts below.  You will see how Closing Power downtrend-breaks
   exactly called the most significant Crude Oil bottoms, those of 1984, 1986,
   1999 and 2009.  The Tiger Closing Power turns upwards show us that
   Professionals have become bullish.  In fact, they are buying buying from
   the broader Public, who still expect lower prices, based on the stream
   of headlines they read about falling fuel prices.

                                                  Crude Oil Bottom in 1984
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                                                     Crude Oil Bottom in 1986
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                                                     Crude Oil Bottom in 1999
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                                                 Crude Oil Bottom in 2009

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   You can see from the very Long-Term Charts of Crude Oil that these were the most signifiant
    bottoms.  http://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-chart