What went right/wrong (week 8) Last week was a risk-more-gain-more week for me. After three boring weeks while I had a spread on corn and nothing memorable happened, I decided to lift my spread and to go for a bigger…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

  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,…

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…