Heading into Friday's session, Live Cattle and Feeder Cattle contracts are in position to complete bullish reversal patterns on their respective weekly charts. After closing last week near weekly lows, [...]

As mentioned in Wednesday's Afternoon Commentary, November soybeans completed a bearish spike reversal on its short-term daily chart. What does this mean for Thursday's session? Probably nothing. After all, algorithms [...]

As mentioned in Friday's look at Corn's Commitments of Traders report (see Report Commentary and Quick Takes), the Dec26 daily close-only chart shows a potential double top formation. Dec26 closed [...]

Midday Update (11:50): Dec26 fell back to a low of $5.1150, up only 3.0 cents for the day before rallying back to $5.2275 Sell orders placed at $5.2250 (midpoint between [...]

As mentioned in Thursday's Afternoon Commentary, I have been keeping an eye on the December corn continuous monthly chart as August nears its end. Within the first couple hours of [...]

In Wednesday's Chart of the Day I mentioned how the September feeder cattle futures contract was in a minor (short-term) 3-wave downtrend. The minor selloff looking to be a Wave [...]

Recall from last weekend's Feeder Cattle Weekly Analysis: Trend Analysis The September futures contract extended its secondary (intermediate-term) uptrend to a high of $349.85 before closing Friday at $345.225, up [...]

I want to highlight the Nov26 soybean daily close-only chart this afternoon as it is possibly giving algorithms mixed technical statistics. On the Bearish side: Nov26 closed today at $11.6875, [...]

Do I think classic technical patterns matter in this day and age of algorithm-driven trade? No. But let's pretend for a moment it's 40 years ago, and technical analysts still [...]

As mentioned in Monday's Morning Commentary, Watson will be keeping an eye on the December Corn futures contract. A look at the issue's daily chart shows Dec26 has not closed [...]

As mentioned in Friday's Morning Commentary, there looks to be a dramatic Rubber Band Disposition building in the feeder cattle futures market. First, what is a Rubber Band Disposition? A [...]

As mentioned in Wednesday's Afternoon Commentary, corn futures spreads are getting more interesting: The September-December closed at a carry of 22.5 cents a new lifetime low daily close and covered [...]

For as long as I can remember, the argument talking heads in ag media rely on when asked why feeder cattle moved up or down that day has been to [...]

I want to discuss what I mentioned in Wednesday's Afternoon Commentary in more detail. Again, for those of you who may just be tuning in, the September-December corn futures spread [...]

As I mentioned in Thursday's Morning Commentary, both the SRW and HRW September contracts are in position to complete bullish spike reversals on their respective weekly charts. The SRW issue [...]

The daily chart for the November-January soybean futures spread is worth keeping an eye on. Wednesday saw the spread close at a carry of 14.0 cents, one tick below its [...]

Is the downtrend in the August-October live cattle futures spread warning us consumer demand for high priced beef in the US is waning? Or is something else going on? From [...]

According to John Kemp, formerly of Reuters now head of JKempEnergy.com, "Hedge funds and other money managers sold the equivalent of 95 million barrels of ICE Brent futures and options [...]

At 14:00 (ET today, Wednesday, June 17, new US Fed Chairman Warsh, aka Howdy Doody (see Morning Commentary) is expected to announce no change to the Fed fund futures rate. [...]

It has been an interesting Friday morning, with noon (ET) still m0re than an hour away as of this writing. The day began with the usually entertaining but seldom enlightening [...]

A friend asked if I would take a look at August feeder cattle from a short-term technical point of view. My Blink reaction is the minor (short-term) downtrend the contract [...]

It has been an interestingly long holiday-shortened week for the Dec26 futures contract. Friday morning has seen Dec26 fall as much as 6.0 cents, taking out Thursday's low of $4.7650 [...]

If you are following along with Weekly Analysis, there is a chance you sold Dec corn $5.00 calls at Tuesday's open. From this past weekend's Corn Analysis: Based on seasonal, [...]

I don't know if it means anything - and I mean that - but Tuesday's selloff by July corn brought the contract within sight of its 200-day moving average. July [...]

Those of you following along with the long-term Theoretical Positions in Monthly Analysis, either for hedging or investing purposes, will recall I use the Dec-Dec corn futures spread in the [...]