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 [...]

During the conversation with my friend from central Illinois Monday, he asked if the soybean market had moved into a major (long-term) uptrend. Yes. During yesterday's rally, the Teucrium Soybean [...]

It's pre-dawn Tuesday morning. In a number of hours, the US Federal Open Market Committee (Fed, FOMC) 2-day meeting will get under way, raising the volume of the debate about [...]

I just got off the phone with a friend from central Illinois. He, like many of you, provides me with an on-the-ground view of what is happening, with this morning's [...]

Recall from Tuesday morning's look at the January Soybean daily chart, I mentioned how the first two points of the trend line creating overhead resistance were established with reversal patterns: [...]

The Soybean market extended its short-term rally overnight, with the more heavily traded January contract reaching a high of $10.5550, up 5.5 cents from Monday's close. Jan26 remains in a [...]

Keeping with the theme of daily close-only charts, let's take a look at November soybeans as we head toward another harvest weekend. Nov25 seems to have settled into a sideways [...]

To simplify the technical analysis of December corn, let's look at the contract's daily close only chart. Here we see resistance at the round number $4.30 The close on September [...]

George K.,my young friend from Greece, ask me yesterday afternoon how much lower December cotton could go. This has become a familiar question of late, not just for cotton but [...]

Given the discussion in Monday's Afternoon Commentary, I wanted to show you what I see with the January soybean futures contract from a technical and fundamental point of view. Technical [...]