{"id":77,"date":"2012-11-18T23:59:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T06:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/?p=77"},"modified":"2012-11-19T01:09:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T08:09:40","slug":"week-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/2012\/11\/18\/week-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Week in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I was reminded again why I didn&#8217;t like the unpredictability of the corn markets. After trying to capitalize last week on what I thought was a weekly trend with an early week fall in corn prices, the Tradesim delays struck me, and I ended up instead observing different sorts of weekly trends.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of falling at the beginning of the week, corn rose as the week went on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/files\/2012\/11\/corn-nov-18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78\" title=\"corn nov 18\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/files\/2012\/11\/corn-nov-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/files\/2012\/11\/corn-nov-18.jpg 362w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/files\/2012\/11\/corn-nov-18-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wheat, on the other hand, refreshingly followed it&#8217;s slight downward trend, which was again reassuring after some recent choppiness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/files\/2012\/11\/wheat-nov-18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79\" title=\"wheat nov 18\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/files\/2012\/11\/wheat-nov-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/files\/2012\/11\/wheat-nov-18.jpg 362w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/files\/2012\/11\/wheat-nov-18-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since we learned last week about moving averages, I thought I&#8217;d take a look at the moving average of my longest-held contract, which makes me worry a bit about how that recent massive fall in prices will be responded to, if at all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/files\/2012\/11\/moving-average.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80\" title=\"moving average\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/files\/2012\/11\/moving-average.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/files\/2012\/11\/moving-average.jpg 625w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/files\/2012\/11\/moving-average-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I was reminded again why I didn&#8217;t like the unpredictability of the corn markets. After trying to capitalize last week on what I thought was a weekly trend with an early week fall in corn prices, the Tradesim delays struck me, and I ended up instead observing different sorts of weekly trends. Instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568639],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-went-rightwrong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lambla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}