Week 2 of trading on Trade Sim was a mixt of loss and gain with my soybeans contracts. From the first week I come with a short contract for January 2013 (S3F) and a long contract for November 2013 (S3X).…
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Trading in a simulated commodity futures market
The Road Ahead (week 2)
For the next week I intend to have a look at the corn market, as corn and soybeans are substitute goods: they share growing seasons at similar latitudes, climate, a common currency, fuel costs and transportation needs. Therefore understanding of…
Cool Source of Information (week 2)
A good source of information that I plan to use is Morning Market Review by Bryce Knorr. I found about this from one of my classmates blog https://blogs.ubc.ca/spledger/2012/09/23/data-data-data/ and, as I start reading the review, it seems to be a very…
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What Went Right/Wrong (week 1)
In my first week of trading in a simulated commodity futures market, I choose to trade 2 contracts of soybean. I went short in the beginning of 2013 and long in the last trimester of the same year. I did…
The Road Ahead (week 1)
Next week I want to go ahead with the same commodity, soybean, hopping that more research will give me a better picture of what I should trade on the soybean futures market. I will look after the characteristics of soybean…
Cool Source of Information (week 1)
The Farm Journal website is a good source of information for finding the trends in the soybean market. They have agricultural news, http://www.agweb.com/article/corn_soybean_yields_increasing_/ , global news related to agriculture and different issues that influence the agricultural goods http://www.agweb.com/article/wisconsin_classified_as_abnormally_dry__rain_not_enough_to_restore_moisture_LN/. CBOT Agricultural…
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