by Brian Schad | Nov 5, 2014 | Cotton Futures
Cotton futures have been trading range-bound for the last three months after selling off from their spring highs earlier this year in anticipation of this year’s cotton harvest now underway. In Alabama, if the cotton growers can escape potential flooding they expect a...
by Brian Schad | Nov 4, 2014 | Energy Futures, Natural Gas Futures
Natural Gas futures have done a complete “about-face” from last week’s contract low ($3.625 per 1,000ft3 of Btu’s) to prices not seen since the first trading day of last month. Natural gas futures are responding to meteorologists predictions that “below-normal”...
by Brian Schad | Oct 31, 2014 | Agricultural Commodity Futures, Agricultural Markets, 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 | Oct 30, 2014 | Grain Complex, Soybean Meal
Soybean meal futures are seeing it’s biggest monthly gains in four decades as livestock & poultry feed made from soybeans is soaring due to rail-trains not being able to get feed to the animals fast enough. Soybean meal futures are down over $15 per ton currently...
by Brian Schad | Oct 29, 2014 | Grain Markets, Wheat Futures
December Wheat futures are extending their recent gains today, up already more than 12% this month with its biggest gain monthly gain since March. December Wheat futures are currently up .09 cents at $5.3975 per bushel. An agriculture weather group reportedly wrote in...
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