Month: October 2012

What went right/wrong (week 5)

I left my spread position on corn for two weeks and just observed the movement in prices. I can say that almost every time when price increased or decreased, my gain was smaller than my loss. So I didn’t have

The Road Ahead (week 5)

I will try to analyse March 2013 contract reading the commentary for 26th of Oct on TradingCharts.com. This is designed solely as a training tool for the understanding of technical analysis of the financial markets. Even if I don’t have

Cool Source of Information (week 5)

This week I decided to get into the insides of some technical analysis of the financial markets. For this I choose the TradingCharts.com website. Because I went short on 2013 March contract for corn and long on 2013 July contract

What Went Right/Wrong (week 4)

The first days of the last week I gain small amounts due to my short contract on corn. I was thinking to go short on more of the same contracts for a significant profit, but in the meantime I was fearful of

The Road Ahead (week 4)

I intend to keep my spread position on corn for the week that follows. I also believe that while we are closing to the end of harvest period in US, the price for corn will increase. Whereas the forecast corn

Cool Source of Information (week 4)

One of the sources I used this week is FarmFutures.com. I could extract information regarding the change in corn price from “Weekly Corn Review” and “Weekly Basis and Transportation Review”. In these reports they estimate that the overall price curve

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What Went Right/Wrong (week 3)

This week was a good one for my trading game. The decrease in prices of soybean in the beginning of this week made me feel the sweet taste of gain.  My equity balance grew from $40098.28 to $46060.82 on Monday,

The Road Ahead (week 3)

  After last week gains on soybean from short contracts I decided to offset those contracts in order to gather some “money”. Also, I shyly tried corn futures market with a short contract on March 2013. For the next week,

Cool Source of Information (week 3)

On tkfutures.com I found a “Soybean Futures and Options Weekly Blog” where you can quickly see the summary of every week changes in price of soybean and the reason for this: http://www.tkfutures.com/soybean_futures_soybean_options.htm Also, fundamental of corn trading is synthetized on

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