As I was going through all the spread charts I track, the Dec26-Mar27 corn futures spread daily close-only chart stood out to me from a technical point of view. I [...]

Late in Thursday's session, I noticed something unusual with the Fed fund futures forward curve. Recall from Wednesday's Morning Commentary when I wrote: A look at the Fed fund futures [...]

As mentioned in Wednesday's Afternoon Commentary, the May-July corn futures spread is in a holding pattern on its daily close-only chart between 11.0 cents and 11.75 cents carry. More importantly, [...]

As I mentioned in Tuesday's Afternoon Commentary, the May-July soybean futures spread closed yesterday at a carry of 14.25 cents, a new lifetime low, before extending its move to 14.75 [...]

As I talk about in Monday's Morning Commentary, both the global Brent and US domestic WTI crude oil markets are at their highest price levels since June 2022 this month. [...]

Thinking about Weekly Analysis of Corn, I should've gone into more detail regarding my concern for the market. Take a look at the daily close only chart for the May [...]

I was on the phone with a friend from central Nebraska, and he asked how big of a retracement we've seen in Dec26 corn to this point. Given the degree [...]

There is a lot going on in the commodity complex these days, and much of it doesn't seem to make sense. I'll talk about applying my Market Rules again in [...]

As you recall, I've talked recently about possibly selling Dec26 corn calls. The short-term trend looks to be turning down. Dec26 is testing the high end of both the secondary [...]

For What It's Worth And what I mean by this is, as you know, I don't put much importance on classic technical analysis these days, particularly when it comes to [...]

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, [...]