I expect corn to continue to fall. Harvest are nearly in so we should not expect to see any more price shocks due to major changes in the domestic crop report.  Wheat is in the middle of its pattern and heading down. I will take a long position the first day after an upward movement […]

After a bleak week of exams I reentered the market this week with renewed vigor. Seeing that wheat had approached it bottom resistance barrier I took a long position. Like clockwork the position appreciated by about a percent and a half over the week and I was able to lock in a modest profit. I […]

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Wheat seems to be approaching the bottom of its resistance band. Now might be a good time to take a long position, protected with a conservative limit in case of an unexpected decline in price. Corn has been very volatile over the last three days. It seems to be heading down but could spike just […]

After two back to back weeks of substantial losses it feels good to come out positive at the end of the week. I started the week sitting long on four contracts of wheat taken the week before. Prices had fallen, but not to my exit price. I knew that with the crop report coming up […]

http://www.finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx This site gives market data down to a five minuet interval for all the major commodities (not that such a level of accuracy is useful given that the precision of our trading software is akin to using a sledge hammer to preform heart surgery). It hosts data from as far back early 2008, fantastic […]

Despite a really horrible week, I’m actually left optimistic. If it’s possible to lose 20 grand in a week, then it’s possible to make it back. This next week I’ll be looking for long term positions in an attempt to limit the destructive nature of our lovely trading software. Beans seems seem to be rallying, […]

This week went poorly. Spectacularly poorly. In fact I do not believe I could have lost as much money if I tried. It was a combination of bad bets, program glitches, and really unfortunate luck. On Tuesday I took a rather large long position in soy market expecting a market rally. I knew I was […]

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With news of growing pessimism for world harvests, uncertainty in the livestock market, austerity measures and civil unrest in Europe, a strengthening US dollar, and a growing volatility in the competing grains and oils, it safe to say conditions are making forecasting in the short term a bit like guessing which way a leaf will […]