Crude oil is back at testing the key resistance. Imminent breakout or another failure?

It's been a good day for crude oil yesterday as the market benefited from a couple of positive headlines. The first one came in the European session when we got the Bloomberg report saying that China was open for talks with US. That triggered a quick rally as markets look forward to de-escalation on trade front to price out growth fears.

Then we got fresh US sanctions targeting Iran oil tankers in the American session, which provided further support to prices although the bulk of the move was caused by the Chinese headline in the morning. This just shows how laser focused the market is on anything regarding trade negotiations.

On the 1 hour chart, we can see that the price is now back at testing the key resistance zone around the 62.00-64.00 area. The sellers will likely continue to step in here with a defined risk above the resistance to keep targeting new lows, while the buyers will look for a break higher to invalidate the bearish setup and position for a rally into the 72.00 level next.

For now, we are just ranging between the 59.00 support and the 63.00 resistance. A breakout on either side should see the momentum increasing.