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From Agora’s 5 Min Forecast – Kerr sees corn north of $7 in ’08. I know, yet another post about plantings behind schedule. Also worth noting – as long as I’ve been following Kerr (~3 years), his calls on corn prices have been spot-on. Corn futures, on the other hand, are still on the rise. […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
From Agora’s 5 Minute Forecast: “This cold, wet start to April,” explains Kevin Kerr, “means farmers may not get corn into the ground before May 1. That is devastating. If cold, wet weather persists in the Corn Belt and farmers don’t plant until after May 1 and then, as in ’83, we see dry weather […]
Shout out to my boy Marcos for forwarding this one along. A BB&T Capital Markets analyst said Monday corn rationing may be necessary this year, following a U.S. Department of Agriculture report predicting farmers would plant far fewer acres of corn in 2008. Full article
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