At the end of last week, the December 2025 futures contract looked to be in a minor (short-term) sideways trend on its daily chart. Sideways because there is not a [...]

As mentioned in Monday's Afternoon Commentary, the October-November feeder cattle futures spread had an impressive start to the week. After settling last Friday at $2.55, when yesterday's closing bell rang [...]

After Tuesday's bloodbath in the cattle markets, it would be easy to post a number of charts looking at live cattle, or feeder cattle, or both from a technical point [...]

As mentioned in Tuesday's Morning Commentary, the Dec25 corn futures contract continues to hold near $4.20. As I said, this makes it 420-friendly. Putting that Dad Joke aside, Dec25's daily [...]

Just as I was posting Monday's Afternoon Commentary, highlighting the commercial buying seen in the corn market, my friend from central Illinois called. He started our conversation by asking if [...]

Given the Goldilocks Principle that tells us, "Daily charts are too hot, monthly charts are too cold, but weekly charts are just right", I hesitate to post daily charts as [...]

As discussed in Wednesday's Weekly Analysis update for new-crop Corn, from a technical point of view the Dec25 corn futures contract moved into minor (short-term) downtrend on its daily chart. [...]

Let's take a look at some of what's going on with the Dec25 corn futures contract, from a short-term technical point of view. Dec25 confirmed a new minor (short-term) downtrend [...]

I know it's a bit early, but I had a question come in Tuesday afternoon, asking how much higher I thought live cattle would go. It's an interesting question. Let's [...]

After posting my latest Weekly Column, a good friend from Illinois called and asked a follow up question, "What do you think about soybeans?" He had participated on a crop [...]

As mentioned in Weekly Analysis: SRW Wheat this past weekend, the December contract completed a bullish spike reversal last week confirming a move to a secondary (intermediate-term) uptrend. Fundamentally there [...]

I had a question come in about Soybean Meal Wednesday evening. My friends message went something like this: I was looking at some trade data from today, and it looks [...]

After writing Tuesday's Morning Commentary titled "The Coffee Grinder", I got to thinking about the coffee market. The December contract is bullish from both a fundamental and technical point of [...]

As mentioned in Monday's Afternoon Commentary, there are a couple interesting technical items on the daily chart for November soybeans. But before I get too deep in the weeds I'll [...]

As mentioned in Friday's Morning Commentary, the November soybean futures contract completed a bearish technical reversal on its short-term daily chart Thursday: Nov25 posted a high of $10.4925, taking out [...]

I was interested to see how feeder cattle futures would act today, and contracts did not disappoint. For this study I've shifted to the October issue. While September is still [...]

As mentioned in Tuesday's Afternoon Commentary, Wednesday could be an interesting day in the feeder cattle market. For this post, I'm looking at the more active September issue though the [...]

A friend in the brokerage industry asked if I would post an updated look at the Fed fund futures forward curve, as he has customers curious about interest rates. I [...]

In Monday's Afternoon Commentary, I mentioned how the Nov25 soybean futures contract remained in a secondary (intermediate-term) sideways trend on its weekly chart. Here we see a consistent top between [...]

As mentioned in Thursday's Afternoon Commentary, I could make the argument the November soybean futures contract completed a bullish 2-day reversal, confirming a move to a minor (short-term) uptrend. What [...]

From Monthly Analysis: Grains; August 1 Theoretical Positions (Dec Corn Only): Hedgers: See Weekly Analysis: Grains (both Futures and Cash) Investors: Long Dec25 futures from $4.2650 were rolled to Dec26 [...]

Though it seems like only yesterday when I posted my analysis of the continuous monthly chart for December corn futures only, indeed it was last Friday, Monday's activity has prompted [...]

As we set sail on a new month, I want to update the analysis for the monthly close-only chart of the Cash Live Cattle Index – Cash Lean Hog Index spread. [...]

it's going to be an interesting last day of July. While a number of markets could see trend changes on their long-term monthly charts, the spotlight will be burning brightest [...]

As I mentioned in Monday's Morning Commentary, from a long-term investment point of view the only price I'm watching this week is the monthly settlement of the December 2025 contract. [...]