Live cattle futures have recovered all the losses from the Tyson
plant fire in August. The market now stands at solid resistance from a prior
chart consolidation and a 62 percent retracement from highs back in April.
I still see the market as being bullish. The fundamental side looks good as packers still have solid...
Notional funding is simply an agreement a client has with a
Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) to trade his or her managed futures account at
a level beyond the amount of cash deposited. The amount above the cash
deposited to the adjusted trading level is called notional funds. For example, an investor could open a managed
futures account with $200,000 in cash...
Ample supplies and a mild winter have caused natural gas
futures to drip down into multi-decade low support levels. The market has
reached the sub-$2 level a handful of times in the last 20 years, which proved
to be a value zone many times. The market still looks negative, but it is time
to think about a long term bottom. However,...
If you are expecting the gold market to hit record highs
again, it could be a better strategy to use a spread trade that consists of buying
silver and shorting gold. This may go contrary to logical thought, but it has
to do with silver outperforming gold historically in the acceleration phase
toward record highs.
Another Bull Market
in...
If you have not heard by now, most people who trade
commodities lose money. Most of the
estimates range in the 80 to 95 percent range of those who have lost or who are
losing in the world of trading commodities.
Those statistics are dismal for someone who wants to venture into
trading commodities. Fortunately, in my
opinion, a large amount of this...
