Going through some of the seemingly countless charts I keep an eye on and I found this daily chart for May silver interesting. Last Friday saw the contract extend its [...]

I'll look at the April Live Cattle contract in more detail over the weekend, but as we head into Friday's session what stands out to me is the contract is [...]

Let's take another look at the minor (short-term) 5-wave uptrend pattern on the daily chart for November 2026 soybeans following Wednesday's nonsense from the US president/self-proclaimed president of Venezuela/wannabe Grand [...]

Tuesday afternoon, a friend from central Nebraska called with a market question, but rather than corn, soybeans, cattle, and so on, he asked about coffee. Tuesday's close saw the market [...]

As I discussed in Tuesday's Morning Commentary, I'm still not a fan of short-term daily charts, but as I ran the traps of some of the markets in the Grains [...]

Now that Punxsutawney Phil has confirmed there will (likely) be more soybean acres planted in the US this spring, we turn our attention to the Nov26-Jan27 soybean futures spread. While [...]

As we head into the last trading session of January, with the Dog Days of Winter (Summer in South America) just ahead, the March-May soybean futures spread continues to see [...]

The Gold Cash Index extended its incredible, frightening run to a high of $5,595.02 overnight through early Thursday morning. A look at the Indexes daily chart - I'll be talking [...]

A friend from central Nebraska called Wednesday afternoon with a spot-on observation about the corn market. He started our conversation by saying, "Given the weak carry in the March-May corn [...]

The daily close-only chart for March silver shows just how volatile the contract has become. March closed at $77.196 on Friday, December 26, a gain of 7.7% On Monday, December [...]

DNAI Algorithm (Position/Action): Daily - Short-term January: Long/Add March: Long/Add Technical Analysis Both  January and March soybean futures contracts turned short-term bullish Wednesday. Starting with the daily chart for the [...]

In Tuesday's update of Weekly Analysis for Soybean futures (Oilseeds) I talked about putting having open orders to buy back short Jan26 $11.20 call options at 0.5 cent. These were [...]

A friend in the cattle industry calls me occasionally with a test question of my analysis. He asks me about a particular contract, gives me a price range, then asks [...]

As mentioned in Thursday's Afternoon Commentary, when it comes to the soybean market, traders might be keeping an eye on last week's settlements as we make our way towards today's [...]

As mentioned in Thursday's Morning Commentary, it has been an interesting week for the S&P 500 index. After posting a new all-time high of 6,920.34 the last week of October, [...]

As mentioned in Tuesday's Morning Commentary, there are a number of interesting points regarding the soybean futures market's trade volume and open interest numbers. The January issue closed 32.75 cents [...]

As mentioned in Weekly Analysis: Corn Futures, Theoretical Positions; Dec25 $4.20 call options bought for roughly 20 cents could've been sold at 11 2/8 cents on Monday's open. Despite the [...]

As we approach the midpoint of Friday's session, roughly 11:00 (CT), the new-crop November 2026 soybean futures contract remains in position to complete a bearish spike reversal on its weekly [...]

A good friend from central Nebraska called this morning, asking about new-crop (2026) soybeans. In the next round of Weekly Analysis set for this coming weekend, I will change soybean [...]

While there is a lot of downside to the US government shutdown that went into effect on October 1, there have been some slivers of silver lining as well. First [...]

I took another look at the daily chart for the January futures contract given all that has happened so far this week. Toward the end of October, ,the January issue [...]

While Dec25 corn looks to be consolidating on its short-term daily chart, there is a lot going on with the market. Dec25 looks to be nearing a move to a [...]

The US dollar index continued to firm overnight through early Monday morning, hitting a high of 99.94, up 0.14 from last Friday and sitting near that mark as of this [...]

Looking through some of my charts while writing Thursday's Morning Commentary, this January soybean daily study stood out to me. I'm not sure what to call this pattern, but there [...]

Wheat is a buy. Now that I've made you spit your morning coffee on your computer monitor, let me explain. The Teucrium Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) WEAT, based on the [...]