Full Sunday Evening US Grain Weather Update

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Weekly Gold Report

Sean LuskGeneral Commentary

The Gold market finished the week strong Friday and rebounded nicely from multi- month lows made this past Monday. August gold futures settled at 1227.5 gaining $17.50 for the week. Silver futures rebounded as well posting a .50 cent gain for the week to close at 15.93 an ounce basis September futures. Gold may have found a near term bottom …

Nice Save: Soybean Complex

John LunneyGeneral Commentary

September Soybeans      The beans market slipped slightly to test recently mentioned save level of 974 holding up just above at 975.4 at inner trend line support trow-back. Prices rise above first resistance level at 988 and extend to 995.4 before settling at 992.6. The market will have to hold above 982 to continue its advance. A hold beneath …

Trading Psychology

Alan PalmerGrains, Livestock

My trade idea methods; Find short moments of time, offer vertical majority of recent range Fast moves One directional Using customizable trail stop offers lesser risk.  Stop your  chop & clean-up  your Slop. I speak as lifetime pit trader. Your farmer profile, risk accordingly. Farmers always long, biggest long gamblers I’ve  said over decade. Exp. If I said buy soybeans …

Thursday US Grain Weather Update

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AM RADAR CLICK HERE TO SEE FAST LOADING RADAR  The west to east rain/storms which dropped moderate to locally heavy rains last night are still in business this morning.  There are moderate rains over northwest Missouri and far southern Iowa which becomes light rain over central Illinois … and thunderstorms over central and southwest Ohio into western Pennsylvania. WEDNESDAY MAX TEMPS – 70s …

Livestock Report

Ben DiCostanzoGeneral Commentary, Livestock

Live Cattle The August Live Cattle opened (118.25) stronger on Thursday, July 13, 2017 and traded to the high of the day at 118.50. This was just above the 100 DMA (118.15) and the pull from the moving average was just too great for the market to remain above it. Price broke down and traded to the early session low …

Soybean Complex: Giving it Back

John LunneyGeneral Commentary

September Soybeans      Today’s action sees prices violate through weekly low and unravel. Trigger levels were discussed in yesterday’s post. Contract slid to support zone of 979-977. This is a big level as we have reached the inner trend-line comeback , mid level Fib retracement and prior 4 wave low convergence point. Also,weekly range is already roughly 60 cents …

Buy Corn Break, 3.82 &

Alan PalmerGeneral Commentary, Grains

Farmers and Traders, This one is live now.  Boy how things change fast from yesterday to today.  We are down from 4.15 in two days but this presents a nice extreme from which has paid pretty well lately.  The olive is the genesis of trading which is why it is so hard.  Is this the corn drought play?  All bets …

Hogs short, Feeders hit targets

Alan PalmerLivestock

What does your system do when it is wrong? Here I have the tiny feeder cattle contract but it is the same method pretty much.  If I get an area that is an olive sell denoted here and it is taken out to upside, what do you do or what does it mean you ask? I call that an OLS …