Friday, 5th October 2007
Wheat Falls on Expectation High Prices Will Spur More Planting – Bloomberg.com (tags: toti_links Bloomberg trading commodities wheat) Gold Rises in N.Y. as Dollar Ends Three-Day Rally; Silver Gains – Bloomberg.com (tags: toti_links Bloomberg trading commodities gold silver) Oil Rises Above $81 a Barrel on Falling U.S. Fuel Inventories – Bloomberg.com (tags: toti_links Bloomberg trading [...]
Thursday, 4th October 2007
A hectic day at work meant that I didn’t get a chance to check up on much today. I scanned a few articles during my lunch break but really I was too busy to be thinking of anything under than what I needed to get done in my job. Truth be told, I was exhausted [...]
Thursday, 4th October 2007
Soybean Complex Market Recap for 10/3/2007 (tags: toti_links CBOT trading commodities soybeans) Wheat Market Recap Report for 10/3/2007 (tags: toti_links CBOT trading commodities wheat) Gold Falls as Dollar Rebounds Against Euro; Silver Climbs – Bloomberg.com Gold dropped for the second day in a row after the dollar rebounded against the euro, reducing the appeal of [...]
Wednesday, 3rd October 2007
Today was a needed break. Not from the markets as a whole, but really from having an open position. For the first time since I started this whole adventure back in June, this was the first time that I didn’t have an open position and also most importantly in soybeans! I needed that. It was [...]
Wednesday, 3rd October 2007
Soybean Complex Market Recap for 10/2/2007 (tags: toti_links CBOT trading commodities soybeans) Commodities Prices Slump As Dollar Rises – Forbes.com Commodities prices slumped Tuesday as the U.S. dollar muscled its way higher against the euro and other currencies, making everything from oil to wheat more costly to foreign buyers. (tags: toti_links Associated-Press trading commodities) DJ [...]
Tuesday, 2nd October 2007
I was expecting Soybeans to close lower today, but nowhere near limit down. The market touched limit down during the session and just before that I was stopped out. The overbought nature of the market and the pressure of harvesting were finally able to push the price down with the strengthening of the dollar as [...]
Tuesday, 2nd October 2007
Wash. Wheat Farmers Rolling in the Dough: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance When wheat prices hit $6.67 a bushel, farmer Michael Sargent sold his supply because he’d never seen prices that high. He wishes he had followed his wife’s example. (tags: toti_links Associated-Press trading commodities wheat bull-market) DTN Early Word Opening Grains – Farms.com DTN [...]
Monday, 1st October 2007
I think you could best describe today as a day of waiting for soybeans. It was a tight session of trading, with the high of $9.98 and a low of $9.90 and only closing up a 1/4 of a cent. There wasn’t much change from the information available last Friday. Over the weekend, the USDA [...]