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Whoa, how’d I miss the recent rally in live cattle? It make so much sense fundamentally – Asia eating more meat, high grain prices putting the squeeze on meet production, etc…I just fell asleep at the wheel a bit here.Here’s an article I found on BarChart regarding the livestock markets. I also read over the […]
Open Positions Date Position Qty Month/Yr Contract Strike Call/Put Entry Price Last Price Profit/Loss 04/15/08 Long 2 JUL 08 Corn 605 589 ($1,600.00) 04/17/08 Long 1 JUL 08 Cocoa 2735 2777 $420.00 04/15/08 Long 3 JUL 08 Rough Rice 21.745 24.180 $14,610.00 04/15/08 Long 1 JUL 08 Sugar #11 13.26 12.23 ($1,153.60) Net Profit/Loss On […]
Maybe it’s not time to quit on Rice yet! Sorry – wrong rice 🙂 Close call for me – I had my stop down at 23.50. I was sure I was going to be stopped out, and am glad I hung on and waited to “take it like a man”, rather than just selling around […]
David Bloom makes the case that the Japanese Yen is no longer trading based on Japanese events. From personal observation – I agree, the Yen has been basically an inverse proxy of risk appetite in America for the past year or so.
From Marketwatch: Dennis Gartman, editor of daily financial trading commentary The Gartman Letter, said Monday that he’s abandoning his long-held bullish outlook on gold. Gartman said that “good bull markets” don’t fall in the way that gold and other metals fell on Friday, when the precious metal tumbled $27.70. Gold “has broken this well-defined bullish […]
Ah the joys of trading agriculture 🙂 Dow Jones – CBOT corn futures are firmly planted in negative territory, as the market extracts weather premium from prices, analysts say.
And a very happy 420 day to all our friends out there who enjoy puffing the reefer from time to time. Any threat of “Peak Pot” on the horizon, or has it been spared from the biofuels fiasco? Open Positions Date Position Qty Month/Yr Contract Strike Call/Put Entry Price Last Price Profit/Loss 04/15/08 Long 2 […]
Well, when it hits the front page of your local newspaper, it’s probably time to sell. It will be interesting to see where prices go this week. For now, the line is still going from the “lower left to the upper right”, as Dennis Gartman likes to say. Sacramento Bee: Panic over rice prices hits […]
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