Tag: Trading Futures
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Fat Cattle need to go on a Diet
Record high after record high with April live cattle trading near $140 yesterday before stalling. The red horizontal line drawn on the chart below serves as my line in the sand. It will take a settlement below $139 to confirm an interim top. Ultimately I see futures on this contract trading back to the trend…
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Four Soft Commodities – The Forgotten Sector
I track and follow approximately 50 different commodities and I must say that the softs sector where I do a fair bit of trading for clients is ignored too much in my opinion. In this piece I am going to briefly touch on four soft commodities that I track and trade with clients. Below you…
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Coffee Getting support from the Funds
As of this post coffee prices are higher by 4.44% with prices approaching previous resistance just below the 50 day MA (light blue line) that was challenged last week. Prices appear to be on the rise as money managers bought the dip this week when prices were trading near three weeks lows. I anticipate funds piling into coffee longs next week buying upwards of 10,000 contracts as they re-balance their positions at the…
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The Loonie…A Broken Wing but it Can Still Fly
Today is December 5th and it looks like it may be the first positive session in the Canadian dollar in 10 sessions. Future traded to their lowest levels since May of 2010 yesterday but for now it appears .9350 will be the line in the sand in December futures. One cannot look at the Canadian…
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CAD – The Loonie has a Broken Wing
I hate to date myself here but as a young man I was very fond of the video game duck hunt- a “classic” shooting game for the first version of Nintendo. Just as those birds fell from the sky I think the Loonie short term is headed south. Most followers are aware I have been…
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Cocoa Shows Short-term Chart Damage
Cocoa has been kind to speculators of late as we we’re fortunate to catch a few trades. Will three times be a charm? From here it appears prices could be headed south. In the previous two weeks September futures bounced off the 61.8% Fibonacci levels gaining eight consecutive days’ elevating futures 8%. Today will likely…
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What’s Changed because Interest Rates Have not yet…
Let’s check the scorecard. I penned a report on 3/27, just two months ago, titled “Interest Rates – A Ticking time bomb.” In this, I made the bold claim that a bearish play on the Eurodollar has the potential to be the biggest trade of my career. This is not a quick “in and out”…