Website: http://www.agriculture.com/
The Agriculture website was recommended to me by my fellow classmate, Cindy Bae a few weeks ago, and I have been using it since. Aside from the latest news update on agricultural commodities, Agriculture also provides up-to-date weather forecasts along with maps, weekly moisture index, and palmer drought index. As well as soil moisture, precipitation maps, weather, and market report, etc. (http://www.agriculture.com/weather). It is a very useful website for both the farmers and the traders.
It’s also worth mentioning that Agriculture has created some fun polls (http://www.agriculture.com/polls) that usually shows up on the side bars for web browsers to vote, and view results. See examples attached
These results should never be used as official evidence to predict the futures market price patterns. Since there is no way of testing the accuracy of the results of these polls, and they are probably highly biased. They are used for fun purposes only.
Reuters Top News @Reuters
CME Group @CMEGroup
Dept. of Agriculture @USDA
I started following Reuters Top News, CME Group, and Department of Agriculture on twitter about two weeks ago. They update their twitter account as frequent as they update their official websites. I find it easier to keep up with the recent market trend after I followed them. Also, they almost always provided website links along with the corresponding news that they posted. This saves me time from going to their sites individually and look for the specific news.
2 replies on “WEEK 7 (Part 3): Cool Source of Information”
Your hard work is truly commendable Vicky, I feel like if I read your blog, I won’t have to read the news anymore, cos everything I need to know is right here. I have no doubt you will get a lot out of this class, more than most. Great job, respect!
Thanks, Mark! Although I do hope you are joking about the reading my blog instead of the news part..if you want to earn more money in this trading game that is.. 😛