by Brian Schad | Feb 4, 2015 | Cattle Futures, Hog Fututres, Livestock Futures
High beef prices and rising demand for pork products as a cheaper alternative are setting the stage for beef to take a back-seat in production (for pork) for the first time since 1952. Both livestock animals have been hit hard lately with drought, high feed costs, and...
by Brian Schad | Feb 3, 2015 | Corn Futures, Grain Futures, Grain Markets, Soybean Futures, Wheat Futures
Corn futures, soybean futures, and wheat futures have all found temporary support after rallying anywhere between .15c-.40c in today’s session at Chicago’s Board of Trade. Importers around the world had been on the sidelines as US grain supplies had been viewed as...
by Brian Schad | Jan 30, 2015 | Agricultural Commodity Futures, Alternative Investment, Commodity Futures Trading, Global Markets, Hard-Asset Investments
Once each week, usually on Friday evenings, we update our personal weekly commodity trading charts and review them for changes in “net long” or, “net short” holdings between the big commercial commodity traders, large speculators, and the usually uninformed public....
by Brian Schad | Jan 29, 2015 | Grain Futures, Grain Markets, Wheat Futures
Wheat futures is playing a cruel joke on our domestic farmers despite having the smallest crop harvested recently for the past three years. Wheat futures are finding lower prices because of outside factors such as surging wheat output overseas and a switching in feed...
by Brian Schad | Jan 28, 2015 | Crude Oil Futures, Energy Futures, Global Markets
Crude oil futures are hovering just below $45 per barrel and appear for a breakout lower with the forthcoming revelation. The whole breakdown of crude oil prices from OPEC members competing for global customers is about to accelerate with Iraqi oil production. Oil...
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