Investing and Trading News, with a Contrarian, Sarcastic Twist!
Wow – what a crappy week in the commodity markets. The biggest one-week drop in commodities in the last 50 years took place this week – and it wasn’t even a full trading week! I hope everyone is still relatively intact. I am taking some hits myself, but still standing and fortunately still profitable on […]
Open Positions Date Position Qty Month/Yr Contract Strike Call/Put Entry Price Last Price Profit/Loss 03/13/08 Long 1 MAY 08 Cocoa 2891 2904 $130.00 03/12/08 Long 1 DEC 08 Cotton 89.95 87.40 ($1,275.00) 03/13/08 Short 1 JUN 08 E-Mini S&P 500 1315.75 1303.50 $612.50 03/13/08 Long 1 JUN 08 Japanese Yen 0.9992 1.0155 $2,037.50 03/12/08 Long […]
Regular readers know that we’re keeping an eye on developments in the lumber market, which is suffering from its lowest prices in decades. I got the idea from Tom Dyson at DailyWealth, and his follow up article earlier this week inspired me to do some more research on the subject. If you’re also intrigued by […]
Listening to Jim Rogers, my hero, never gets old for me. Here’s a recent interview on CNBC. My favorite part might be the poindexter who keeps asking him dumb questions and getting Jim fired up. In wrestling he would be called a “jobber” – the guys they used to have in the 80s and early […]
Props to our buddy Pharmer, who called this one on the correction a few weeks back. Rice was the last shoe to drop in the grains correction, and the first to be roaring back out of the gate. I just had one contract filled at 18.98, and rice is currently sitting at 19.05 – basically […]
Saw this chart yesterday and forgot to post it – courtesy of the folks at Agora.
From Chris Gaffney at the Daily Pfennig: Both Chuck and I have had positions in Japanese Yen for some time now, so you will have to excuse us if we seem a little excited (relieved) that the yen is finally moving up. But as always, the move in yen won’t be a one way ride. […]
In today’s DailyWealth, Tom Dyson makes the case for much higher grain prices in the future. According to Tom, here are the inflation adjusted highs for the grains (hit in 1947): Soybeans: $37.86 Corn: $26.03 Wheat: $29.25 Considering that during a bull market, nearly everything hits a new all-time high – these could have some […]
Ouch 🙂 A tough week, no doubt about that. They don’t come much tougher. A couple of bright spots I’ll pull out: I’m out of all non-currency positions, albeit after a sharp hair cut I managed not to lose all the money I made the week before Selling is tough. Buying is much easier – […]
For those readers not quite ready to open a futures account, here’s a good alternative option for you. UBS announced today that they are launching a new index that will focus on food inflation. Needless to say, this index would have produced very nice returns over the past 5 years – and I think the […]
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