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CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR A FREE TRIAL OF THE SWINE TIMES Happy Monday Hog traders We come into the week on the back of a very negative few weeks in the lean hog complex. Between falling cash prices and the tariffs announced last week, we feel much of the negativity is priced in. … Read more.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR A FREE TRIAL OF THE SWINE TIMES Happy Friday hog traders President Trump’s tariff announcement yesterday was met by retaliation from the Chinese by way of 25% tax on US hog imports, among other goods. The total tariff amount was rather small, only 3 billion dollars worth of US… Read more.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR A FREE TRIAL OF THE SWINE TIMES Happy Friday hog traders Thanks for following along for another week! Hog markets are showing some promise after a rough start to the week. April hogs, being the long anchor of our trading lately has been tied to a weak cash market. … Read more.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR A FREE TRIAL OF THE SWINE TIMES CURRENT POSITIONS: LONG 1 UNIT OF APRIL HOGS SHORT 1 UNIT OF AUGUST HOGS @ -8.75 Below is how the weekly product market changed for the week ending 1/19/18. Looking into next week: As you can tell by the primal cut… Read more.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR A FREE TRIAL OF THE SWINE TIMES Good afternoon hog traders We wanted to shoot everyone a comment after the WASDE report today in regards to hogs. We had a good week of trading if you joined us in the markets. The roll forward from April-June to Feb-Apr was… Read more.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR A FREE TRIAL OF THE SWINE TIMES Good morning hog traders I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and the hangover is not getting you down this morning. Lets get to the week ahead. We enter the week long 1 unit of Feb hogs with around 67 cents with… Read more.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR A FREE TRIAL OF THE SWINE TIMES Hello hog traders Quarterly hog and pig reports came out this morning as did cold storage. The report came out very close to expectations. All hogs came in at 102% of last year’s levels, we are at 101% breeding levels compared to… Read more.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR A FREE TRIAL OF THE SWINE TIMES Happy Monday Hog Traders, Before we get started, publishers of the Swine Times were on the weekend “talking head” shows This Week in Agribusiness and US Farm Report. Check out Donna and John below by clicking on the images. They will take you… Read more.
This is a sample entry from Don DeBartolo’s email newsletter, Trade Spotlight: Futures, published on Monday, December 11, 2017. Short the February 2018 Lean Hogs futures contract from 69.175 (12/06/17). Market settled at 67.025. Marked-to-market gain of $860. Initial Margin = $1,320 Maintenance Margin = $1,200 Stop loss: Move buy stop to 68.500, above the… Read more.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR A FREE TRIAL OF THE SWINE TIMES Good morning hog traders Current positions: Short 1 unit of Feb hogs Last week we took profit on our Long Dec-Short Feb position. Below is how the weekly product market changed for the week ending 12/8/2017. Looking into next week: The dominant… Read more.