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If you are reading this, you should have received our first trade recommendation around 11:30 am central time today. This is the first trade-able recommendation from the newsletter, we hope it came across clean and understandable. Keep in mind we have clients actively trading these recommendations so our first priority is to get clients into the trade, so in the future you can expect a recommendation via email during the trade session, then after the close around 1 pm central, we will follow up with our “why”. We understand folks are interested in learning as well as profiting, we hope we can accomplish both.
We bought the February 18 lean hog futures while simultaneously selling the October 18 lean hog futures. Our fill price was somewhere around -.55 cents (per hundred weight). Meaning, October hogs were 55 cents cheaper than February hogs. Our goal with the trade is to see that spread widen to somewhere around 2.00. If that would happen our profit would be somewhere around 600 dollars per spread (before fees).
We believe the selloff in October hogs may be getting closer to a bottom than in recent days, but we feel that if prices would rally, we would see the market go into a carry mode. Meaning, February would lead prices higher on increased demand/lower supply as prices fall. We think the October contract represents a “wall of pork” coming down the pipeline. Producers will most likely adjust supply in coming months at these prices and February will perform relative to October.
Please call the desk if you have any questions. We are happy to answer any questions.
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