Heating Oil technical indicators: RSI, moving averages, 52-week range
Heating Oil closed at 4.925 USD/gal on 2026-10-20, up 0.10%, the 4th percentile of its daily moves by size since 2000. It is 9.26% below its 52-week high and 140.61% above its 52-week low, and is above its 20-, 50- and 200-day moving averages. Heating Oil had an RSI(14) of 56.35 at the 2026-10-20 close, in the 65th percentile of its history since 2000. At the 2026-10-20 close, the 52-week high of Heating Oil was 5.4275 USD/gal, set on 2026-09-30, and the 52-week low 2.0469 USD/gal, set on 2026-01-07. At the 2026-10-20 close, the 20-day moving average of Heating Oil was 4.7739 USD/gal. At the 2026-10-20 close, the 50-day moving average of Heating Oil was 4.6827 USD/gal. At the 2026-10-20 close, the 200-day moving average of Heating Oil was 3.7642 USD/gal.
Figures reflect the settled daily snapshot for 2026-10-20.
Heating Oil here is the continuous series of the NYMEX NY Harbor ULSD futures contract (HO), which has specified ultra-low-sulfur diesel since 2013 but is still called heating oil, delivered in New York Harbor and priced in US dollars per gallon.
Price and momentum
- Close
- 4.925 USD/gal
- Daily change
- up 0.10%
- RSI (14)
- 56.35 — 65th percentile since 2000 (6547 obs)
- 20-day return
- -0.35% — 45th percentile since 2000 (6541 obs)
Session
- Open
- 4.934 USD/gal
- High
- 5.0182 USD/gal
- Low
- 4.8138 USD/gal
- Prior close
- 4.9201 USD/gal
- Gap (overnight)
- +0.28%
- Intraday range
- 4.15% of price
- Close position
- 54.4% of range
Moving averages
| Period | Value | Price vs MA |
|---|---|---|
| 20-day MA | 4.7739 USD/gal | +3.17% |
| 50-day MA | 4.6827 USD/gal | +5.17% |
| 200-day MA | 3.7642 USD/gal | +30.84% |
52-week range
- Position
- 85.1% of range
- 52-week high
- 5.4275 USD/gal · price -9.26%
- 52-week low
- 2.0469 USD/gal · price +140.61%
Price chart
Volatility
- 20-day realised volatility
- 2.741% daily — 81st percentile since 2000 (6541 obs)
- ATR (14)
- 0.2477 USD/gal · 5.03% of price — 90th percentile since 2000 (6547 obs)
Relative volume
- RVOL
- 1.02x 20-day average — 49th percentile since 2000 (6524 obs)
- Volume
- 32.8K contracts
Volatility by rate-era
- pre-crisis (to 2008)
- 2.50% (data from 2000-09-01)
- ZIRP (2009–2015)
- 1.89%
- tightening (2015–2018)
- 1.98%
- ZIRP (2019–2021)
- 2.52%
- tightening (2022–2023)
- 3.16%
- easing (2024– )
- 2.62%
Returns
- 5-day
- -0.19%
- 60-day
- +19.78%
Full daily summary
On 2026-10-20, Heating Oil closed at 4.925 USD/gal, up 0.10% on the day. At the 2026-10-20 close, Heating Oil was 85.1% of the way from its 52-week low to its high. At the 2026-10-20 close, Heating Oil had an RSI(14) of 56.35, in the 65th percentile of its history since 2000, and its 20-day return of -0.35% was in the 45th percentile. It is trading above its 20-, 50- and 200-day moving averages. At the 2026-10-20 close, the 20/50/200-day moving averages of Heating Oil were 4.7739 / 4.6827 / 3.7642 USD/gal, with price +3.17% / +5.17% / +30.84% against them. At the 2026-10-20 close, the 52-week range of Heating Oil was 2.0469–5.4275 USD/gal; it closed 9.26% below the high and 140.61% above the low. Its 20-day volatility is 2.741% daily, in the 81st percentile of its history since 2000. Its 14-day average true range (ATR) is 0.2477 USD/gal, 5.03% of price. It has returned -0.19% over 5 days and +19.78% over 60 days.
Methodology
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