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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Friday, 28th September 2007
So much, for no surprises in the USDA’s grain stock report. Soybeans came in at a record 573 million bushels, well above estimates. Having read the report when it came out, I expected today to close well down. It did, all but reversing yesterday’s gains. Those extra 20 million bushels in the current stocks provide [...]
Thursday, 27th September 2007
Soybeans sailed right on through the $10 mark. The underlying fundamentals have been stacking up for a while now with increasing demand and falling supplies and since August have manifested themselves in a huge push upwards of the price. No doubt, the falling dollar and the continued march upwards of wheat have also been a [...]
Wednesday, 26th September 2007
Well, I guess I was a little right. Planting is providing the support, it’s just a lot more than I had anticipated at the moment. The factor’s haven’t changed, Brazil and wheat are still the major reasons behind the support. Dow Jones‘ outlook for the day had it summed up in their opening line: Soybean [...]
Tuesday, 25th September 2007
I did catch some of the market action today and it seemed to me that wheat was pulling up corn and soybeans for most of the day. In the end though, with wheat giving up some of its earlier gains towards the end of the session, the short-term factors weighed heavily on soybeans with the [...]
Monday, 24th September 2007
I wasn’t keeping an eye on the market at all today. I just about caught the pre-opening reports but other than that I didn’t see much. All in all, I don’t appear to have missed anything. The news this morning was about Paraguay and the expected good harvest there. Soybeans opened a little higher and [...]
Friday, 21st September 2007
After ten sessions, soybeans finally closed down. I was expecting it and indeed have been waiting for the past three days for it to happen. It seemed very likely that it would need to take a breath, having risen 4% this week alone. With nothing new today to help the bulls push forward and the [...]