This is a sample entry from Craig Turner’s weekly market analysis newsletter, Turner’s Take, published on August 29, 2012. We have an interesting opportunity in a Corn futures butterfly spread this morning. For those of you who are not up to speed on futures butterfly spreads, please read this Daniels Trading blog article written by… Read More.

Recently, I had a number of clients involved in a futures spread in the live cattle market. The idea behind the trade was to get long the cattle market heading into the summer by buying in the front month and selling in the back month – specifically, they were buying June Live Cattle and simultaneously… Read More.

Savvy traders, who understand the term structures of futures markets, often use the butterfly futures spread to isolate certain contracts in which they feel demand or supply will be the strongest or weakest. Some people are only aware of the options version of this trade (read the past article). While the futures version of the… Read More.

Traders with bearish views of the economy need to tread lightly while commodities are at current prices. Due to easy money, algorithmic trading programs, a shrinking world and massive geopolitical risk, playing any market with an easy defined “buy” or “sell” stamp on it can be a difficult trade to sit through. In a market… Read More.

The sayings go, “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” and “if it isn’t broken don’t fix it”. We get it – we will leave the old dogs alone. Then again, how come no one ever talks about teaching new dogs old tricks? There is a trading style, as old as the exchanges themselves,… Read More.