A New Approach to Technical Analysis of Oil Prices

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the oil prices, which have crucial impact of an economy, using new ratios called Nickel ratios instead of the golden ratios on technical analysis. The Nickel ratios are developed considering Nickel Fibonacci sequence. This study is the first to use Nickel ratios in technical analysis in economics and finance. In this study, graphs comprising of weekly, daily, $4-$hour and $30-$minute periods are analyzed using Nickel ratios in Fibonacci retracement, fan, arcs and time zones applications, and the results are compared with the golden ratio obtained from the Fibonacci number sequence. In addition, the support and resistance points obtained from Nickel ratios have more significant levels than the golden ratio. The retracement, fan, arcs and time zones graphs with weekly, daily, four hourly and half-hourly data based on the golden and Nickel ratios show that the levels regarding the Nickel ratios confirm more significant points in comparison with the levels regarding the golden ratios. Finally, more efficient results are observed when the ratios of golden and Nickel are considered together.

Keywords

• Technical analysis
• Fibonacci retracement
• Nickel ratios
• oil prices

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