I opened the week by taking a long position on two soy contracts and a short position on two contracts of corn on the 25th. Checking the markets early the next morning I decided to exit my long soy position at a stop loss, taking a loss of $4000. Feeling the sting of a healthy […]

Well, it’s been an exciting first week of trading. It appears as though the markets are beginning to stabilize after a summer of extreme volatility. However, questions over the strength of the US dollar and and a tremendous amount of product yet to be harvested means we are not out of the woods yet. The […]

I was asked to discuss and summarize a recent interview with Gil McGowan, the president of Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL), on cbc Radio (link at the end of my ramblings). Here’s the “too long; didn’t read” version of it for those lazy time efficient readers out there; The NGP will connect Alberta’s oil sands […]