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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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road ahead (week 6)

October 26th, 2012 3 Comments

I have long believed the corn price is too high and went short on Monday. Finally on Friday, the price went down a little bit. The reason may be for the Mexican stock released corn futures. The price of corn this week remained tepid. Nothing new information allowed it to adjust its price to a […]

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cool sources (week 5)

October 26th, 2012 No Comments

1. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/chinas-growth-forecast-chills-commodity-markets/article551340/ I found the global and Mail’s business section is helpful in decision making! 2. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/funds-and-etfs/funds/commodities-put-canada-in-the-drivers-seat/article566597/ Another good article in global and mail that i recommend everyone to have a look.

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what went right/wrong( week 6)

October 26th, 2012 No Comments

last week i had a expectation that corn and soybean will slump down in this week. it turns out that though they didn’t slide down largely, but still decline a lot. At the first two days, both of these two commodity went up quiet a lot ( their price already high). Hence  I entered into […]

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The Road Ahead (Week 5 )

October 21st, 2012 3 Comments

Last week, Soybeans[i] rose the most in five weeks on signs that demand is increasing for supplies from the U.S., the world’s biggest grower and exporter.  It’s lucky I capture the gain last week. However, though the report higher demand of soybean, it was in the last week. The market has reacted to the new. […]

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what went right/wrong week5

October 21st, 2012 No Comments

The balance of this week   this is this week’s transactions,ending with a gain of 3000. During the last weekend i went short with both soybean and corns. however,when i found that the corn and soybean price is declining sharply in the morning of monday, i closed soybean and switch to long soon, before it […]

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cool sources( week 4)

October 16th, 2012 No Comments

1. http://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/CN/M this website can provide you with all data of future commodity and also the  anlysis. 2. http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/28/business/la-fi-mo-corn-inventory-8-year-low-prices-jump-20120928 Los Angeles times. great reading materal. only for reference. 3. http://farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2012/07/current_expectations_of_future.html A very good webstie that prives agricultural information and analysis.

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trading strategy of corn, continously. (week 4)

October 16th, 2012 No Comments

recently, the corn price has been driven up quiet crazy. All was due to the drought. estimation of yields is changing all the time and influenced market all the time. so question, how long this drought will last and how much it will influence on the harvest? I thinks i may also went long in […]

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cool sources ( week 3)

October 8th, 2012 No Comments

the sources i uesed are not so much.  since we are sacplers, in and out the market in a very short run, undamental analsysis are basice essentials, but not so important. what i valued most is the new information and technical analysis. below are the sources i use most often: All about commodities:  everything about […]

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