Gold finished the week with its biggest weekly gain in two months on Friday. August gold futures settled 1254.9, up $27.10 for the week. September silver settled 1645.5 up .52 cents for the week. The rally this week comes on two fronts. First, a surging euro pushed the dollar to its weakest since June 2016, making bullion cheaper for holders …
Soybean Complex: Recent Technical Developments
September Soybeans The bean market held trend-line support at 999.4 before pressing higher, as suggested, reaching first line resistance at 1018 following thru to post a high of 1022.2 then easing slightly to finish at 1018.2. Continued upside action will test cross zone resistance at +/- 1028. This area marks the extended weekly ATR reading. A close/hold above …
Hog-Dog days ahead?- get a game plan
I have made this clear but here I share some levels going into the weekend. I like to think ahead of time how this will start to look and from that some trading ideas will come from that. Bonds today 3 off high had a sell going into Friday but didn’t even hang in today without dropping back to steady, …
Big Bang Low Risk Trades
Good Morning Farmers, Commercials and Traders, (late grain snapshot playing lines on bottom) Part of being a successful trader requires having levels that you confident about, followed by a trading methodology that allows you to shoot bigger with a tighter risk profile. Last month gave a precise example with soybeans where, for instance, if you were a 10 lot trader …
December Corn: Making Sense of It
December Corn A choppy neutral trading activity seen in today’s market activity. For tomorrow a rise above 399.4 will look to advance. First upside target zone comes in at 404-405. A hold/close above will look to challenge last week’s high 414-417. A break below 391 will look to weaken to test cross zone support at …
More Uncertainty: Soybean Complex
September Soybeans A choppy mild advance unfolds in the bean contract today. Prices hold slip zone to post moderate gains with high set at 1008.4 before easing to finish at 1004. Not a lot of structural clues made apparent to me. I’m left to focus on levels rather than wave analysis to gain any insight. Above 1005 sets …
Livestock Report
Live Cattle The August Live Cattle contract remains trapped between the 100 DMA (118.175) and the 200 DMA (114.30). It opened (117.20) just above Monday’s settlement price (116.95) on Tuesday, July 18, 2017 and traded down to the low of the day at 114.775. It spent the remainder of the day consolidating in the lower end of the range (115.45 …
Daily Gold Report
Gold prices hit a two-week high on Tuesday closing well above the 200 day moving average at 1232.7., finishing today’s session up over $8.00 to close at 1241.9. One of the reasons for the rally is the decline in the U.S. Dollar. The greenback is falling due to fading prospects of an imminent increase in U.S. interest rates and expectations …
Head Scratcher : Soybean Complex
September Soybeans Market held Monday’s low as suggested and took out early week’s high. Prices did challenge noted resistance level of 1010 failing at 1008.2 before losing all its gains to settle at 993.6. It’s a structural mess as I see it and I find it difficult to to discern any high probability scenario playing out. The late …
Soybean Complex: Kicking off the Week
September Soybeans Tight 13 cent range established in the bean market today. Market sets low at 985.2 at the .618 retracement and prior iv wave low convergence level. A hold here will look to take out recent first wave’s high at 999. First upside resistance level comes in at +/- 1010. A hold above 1013 sets up advance …