Quiet night at the CBOT for feed grains, soybeans give back yesterday’s gains. Cotton cant buy a rally amidst falling conditions.
Grains/Oilseeds
Tuesday AM in Grain and Oilseeds 10/27
Quiet night at the CBOT for feed grains, soybeans give back yesterday’s gains. Cotton cant buy a rally amidst falling conditions.
Maximize Your Harvest with Grain Futures Trading
Accurately predicting the financial result of your grain harvest months ahead of time is certainly a challenge. A litany of factors impact the final bottom line, from crop yields to fluctuations in asset pricing. Fortunately for producers, grain futures trading can help maximize the rewards from a year spent in the fields.
5 Factors of Grain Market Analysis
Ag futures products offer participants an environment rich in both opportunity and utility. Whether your purpose in the markets is active hedging or speculation, ag futures offer a flexibility rarely seen in finance. From preserving wealth in the face of currency inflation to locking in profit on the annual harvest, the agricultural commodity markets offer… Read more.
Grain Market Outlook: 2019
To say the very least, 2018 was a volatile year for grains and oilseeds. Tariffs, ethanol production, and global economic growth brought consistent participation to the markets. Some products rallied while others lagged, giving ag market participants all they could handle throughout the calendar year. Moving forward, the grain market outlook for 2019 is dominated… Read more.
A “Crabel” Breakout Trade in Soybean Futures
The soybean futures had a breakout setup for Tuesday as Friday was an inside day with significant range contraction (Friday’s range was 31% of Thursday). These patterns gave us a heads up to look for a directional move (opens at one end of the range, closes on the other) and potentially a large trading range expansion.
Market Spotlight: Kansas City Wheat
If it had not been for Wheat, human beings may never have socially and culturally developed as cosmopolitan as we have. Wheat was the first crop to be cultivated on a grand scale and stored long-term, enabling the start of city-based societies and the dawning of civilization.
Market Spotlight: Canola
Canola is a genetic variation of rapeseed developed by Canadian plant breeders specifically for its nutritional qualities and its low level of saturated fat. The term Canola is a contraction of “Canadian oil.”
Market Spotlight: RBOB Gasoline
Gasoline is a complex mixture of hundreds of lighter liquid hydrocarbons and is used chiefly as a fuel for internal-combustion engines. Petroleum crude, or crude oil, is still the most economical source of gasoline with refineries turning more than half of every barrel of crude oil into gasoline.
Two Bullish Corn Charts in a Bearish Market
As a reader of TWIG, I hope you have come to understand my major objective to inspire ideas so you can hedge or trade these grains markets on your terms. Lately, I have been asked by producers why it would make sense to re-own. Today, I am going to step out of my bear costume and put on my bulls jersey. Maybe I can inspire an idea or two to get you involved.