Tag Archives: Commodity Trading

Swing Trade Strategy – Long Sept Copper hits target objective – big winner!

On September 14th, I posted this commentary and recommendation about the December Copper. Soon after this was posted the market traded through the trigger price to elect the buy signal for a long position. December Copper – Copper resumed the longer-term bullish trend after ending the four-day corrective pullback into a projected reversal swing date.… read more

Grain Stocks / Futures Broker

US Sep 1 Stocks: Soybeans 0.151 Bln Bushels, Vs 0.571B US Sep 1 Stocks: Corn 1.708 Bln Bushels, Vs 4.310B Jun 1 US Sep 1 Stocks: Wheat 2.459 Bln Bushels, vs 0.976B Jun 1 USDA US Revised 2009 Soybean Crop 3.359 Bushels USDA 2010 All Wheat Crop 2.224 Bln Bushels; Vs 2.265B Aug… read more

Crude Oil Inventories / Futures Broker

NEW YORK, Sept 29 (Reuters) – U.S. crude oil inventories fell slightly more than expected last week on lower imports, a government report showed on Wednesday. Stocks of gasoline and distillates also dropped, against forecasts of builds, as refinery utilization slumped 2 percentage points to 85.8 percent, according to the report by the U.S. Energy… read more

Grain News and Calls / Futures Broker

WHEAT – Down 18 to 20 cents per bushel. Improved crop weather in several important growing areas, including drought-hit Russia, long-liquidation and profit-taking combining to weigh on wheat market. * Improved chances for rainfall in the drought-hit regions of Russia will boost soil moisture and aid germination of newly sown winter wheat. * Favorable weather… read more

Initial Jobless Claims 9/23/2010 -Futures News, Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Rise

WASHINGTON, Sept 23 (Reuters) – New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly last week, government data showed on Thursday, highlighting continued labor market weakness. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 12,000 to a seasonally adjusted 465,000, the Labor Department said, breaking two straight weeks of declines. Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast claims… read more

Grain News and Opening Calls – Futures News

WHEAT – Up 8 to 10 cents per bushel. Dry weather in Australia, Russia and portions of Argentina, combined with a season-ending frost in Canada that may have harmed some of the immature crop, boosts wheat futures to six-week high. * Frost kills Canada crops, Wheat Board sees quality concerns. * Showers in portions of… read more

Swing Trading Strategy – Using the Median line, combined with the Reversal Date Indicator, to enhance market timing. [chart]

According to Dr. Alan Andrews, one of the main median line trading principles was that price will return to the median line 80% of the time. Secondly, if the price trades up to the median line and gaps down or makes a long-range day away for the median line, it is a sell signal. Understanding… read more

Reversal dates for the week of September 20 – September 24

Monday – Corn, Silver, Copper, Sugar Tuesday – Wheat, Soybeans, Bean oil, S&P, Dow Jones, British pound Wednesday – Coffee Thursday – Cattle, Corn, Eurocurrency Friday – Coffee www.tradersnetwork.com Swing Trading with Market Timing intelligence The most important element of a successful swing trading approach is market timing of both entry and exits. In this… read more

Grain News and Opening Calls – Futures Broker

By Tom Polansek Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES CHICAGO (Dow Jones)–Wheat prices are poised to end a three-day losing streak on global weather worries and spillover support from a rally to nearly two-year highs in corn. Traders remain nervous about tight world supplies of wheat after a severe drought devastated Russia’s crop this summer and prompted… read more

PPI 9/16/2010 – Futures News, Futures Broker

WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) – U.S. producer prices rose slightly more than expected in August as energy prices recorded their first increase since March, government data showed on Thursday, calming fears of deflation for now. The Labor Department said the seasonally adjusted index for prices paid at the farm and factory gate increased 0.4 percent,… read more