If oil takes a significant dip overnight, I will be short MPC. I don't think there is any fundamental to support this stock to the upside anyways, so I am shorting calls. Plus I am not much of an options buyer unless to trying to hit a home run.
The blue line represents options expiration day. These are 4h bars.
Important to note that NOT all refiners are...
Using $42.50 as a support level, a bounce off that level would be considered bullish, but if prices fail to hold, a return to $37.50 seems probable. This implies a negative 200 day SMA cross, which suffice it to say, would be a return to the bearish int term trend. This, in concert with a low energy demand season approaching and several refiner outages expected in...
I've been long MPC for a number of reasons. I'm just bored. Quiet day. The most important thing is that it's found a bottom at $29 after free-falling with no support unless you go back to 2012. This stock is down -50% since early Dec 2015.
Disclosure: I am long MPC.
Today's was the first breakout for MPC from the fib retracement. It is topping out back to the January lows. This MAY be a point to where the trade switches from fundamentals before it trades off of something technical. Just general discussion.
I sold today. Please comment.
I was long at $36 handle on Tuesday. I sold at $38.70 which it is straddling right now at the top of the fib retracement. MPC is outperforming other refiners today like VLO, HFC, PSX.
There is no technical support above $38.70. Either it breaks out to $50+ or rather I am looking to buy another dip below this fib line if there is no sustained upside support for...
Yesterday MPC closed at $36.47 on a late rally exactly at its 2nd fib line for which there is previous support at that level. It's been hard for this stock to breakout past $37 with analyst price targets in the $50s. It needs momentum.
