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Entries from November 2012

what went right/wrong week 8

November 23rd, 2012 No Comments

one day i wake up, found the soybean market was falling apart, i quickly closed those contracts. result loss for the first three contracts. then the following 3 long contracts were due to system error. i transacted three contrac without my order. then, i went long on wheat, but it turn out  delcining, to stop […]

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cool source ( week 8)

November 23rd, 2012 No Comments

1. http://money.cnn.com/2012/07/19/investing/corn-soybean-prices/index.htm CNN MONEY.  not a good site for first hand information, but it’s good to learn anlytical skills   2. http://www.farmdoc.illinois.edu/marketing/mobr/mobr_08-04/mobr_08-04.html A big website that you can find all agricultural news and reports here.

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the road ahead week 8

November 23rd, 2012 No Comments

  The road ahead (week8) Last week is a big mess. I lost several thousand because of delayed action. And the system has gone long for me, when the market was lashing and goes short for me at the market lowest price ever. Soybean has decreased from 1500 plus to below 1400. The reason for […]

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cool sources( week 7)

November 3rd, 2012 No Comments

1.Open blog http://openmarkets.cmegroup.com/ blogs from CME group. Blogs from expertises are not always bible, but their thinking pattern and analysis apporach can inspire you. And also those blogs can help us rise a good sense to the market. 2. Agremongy  http://www.agrimoney.com/ Another good website which has latest information of commodity market. 3. Risks Associated With Investing […]

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road ahead (week 7)

November 3rd, 2012 2 Comments

Recently, I haven’t done too much on gathering information and fundamental analysis, basically is technical analysis and that’s it. Since we are trading in a extremely short time horizon, demand and supply can be easily influence by information shock plus we, as students, don’t have much time and  first hand information source, the best approach […]

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what went right/wrong(week 7)

November 3rd, 2012 3 Comments

Basically, nothing went wrong this week, really good luck. Because of the hurrican and earthquake, i didn’t enter market untill wensday. i found the prices were up like $10 plus on both corn and soybean. Hence, i went short on soybean for 3 contracts and corn for 2 contracs. However, on the rest of the […]

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