Session Summary: We are just about to the end of another week, another busy week market-wise. The last question to be answered is if US stock indexes can rally over the last half-hour of trade, with all three major indexes [...]

Session Summary: Sometimes things sneak up on you at the end of a quiet day. I hadn’t been tracking the US dollar index that closely Thursday, finally checking in on it as other markets started to close. All I can [...]

Session Summary: Wednesday was a good day for planting corn or moving cattle, for mowing the yard or cleaning out a boot pit. It was a good day for doing nearly anything but watching markets unless one was long US [...]

Session Summary: There wasn’t much we could consider extraordinary about Tuesday’s markets, except for maybe the continued rally in lean hogs. Here we see the more active July contract (though I’ve longed considered it as useful as a hip pocket [...]

Session Summary: I think we can close the markets for the week on the idea most did a week’s worth of work in one day. I’m talking mostly about the grain and oilseed sector that saw, among other things, a [...]

Session Summary: At times this week seemed to fly by, but as we near the close in financial markets it seems like a month has passed since last Friday. And while the week saw a little bit of everything, when [...]

Session Summary: I started Thursday off with the opening line of the Eagles’ song Tequila Sunrise on my mind (“It’s another tequila sunrise…”), and now as I look at the markets for Afternoon Commentary I can’t help but think of [...]

Session Summary: I’ve mentioned in the past the commodity complex tends to see wild activity on Wednesday’s as noncommercial traders jump back into markets. This occurs after data for the next round of CFTC Commitments of Traders reports is pulled [...]

Session Summary: I’m not quite sure what to read into Tuesday’s session. Some of the markets that closed higher did so on light trade volume (e.g corn, soybeans) while some markets closing lower did so with quite a flourish (e.g. [...]

Session Summary: Dean Martin might’ve had a premonition about today’s markets when he sang, “Ain’t that a kick in the head?” all the way back in 1960. A couple weeks ago, a good friend asked me if a breakdown by [...]

Session Summary: If you need a feel-good, end of the week, head to the bar on the way home song, Gilbert O’Sullivan’s classic “Alone Again (Naturally)” is NOT the one you want. Nevertheless, it’s a great song, and the first [...]

Session Summary: As has become routine, markets waited a day to react to the latest rate hike announcement by the US Federal Reserve. After I posted Afternoon Commentary Wednesday, US stock indexes staged a powerful yet strange rally. It certainly [...]

Session Summary: The US Federal Open Market Committee announced a 50-basis point increase in the Fed-fund rate. Reportedly this was the largest rate move since 2000, raising it to the vague area of 0.75% to 1.0%, in an “aggressive” attempt [...]

Session Summary: The commodity complex in general was under pressure again Tuesday, giving all indication traders are looking ahead to Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee statement regarding interest rates. The anticipation is a big hike is coming, the degree a [...]

Session Summary: It was another big day for a number of markets in the commodity complex, once again led by distillates. Here we see the spot-month contract followed Tuesday’s 9.2% gain at the close with a rally of as much [...]

Session Summary: If nothing else, Monday was an interesting start to the week. Of course, the key talking point on financial television, regardless of which one you landed on, was Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter. The French Presidential election [...]

Session Summary: I had to look this one up, but the French phrase “au revoir” can be interpreted as “until we see each other again”. It fits well this Friday afternoon because when next we meet the French will have [...]

Session Summary: It’s entirely possible Thursday’s selloff in the grain and oilseed complex had nothing to do with what looked to be early signs of old-crop export sales cancellations in the latest weekly export sales and shipments update. After all, [...]

Session Summary: We all know the old cliché “Turnaround Tuesday”, but this week it would’ve paid off for those betting varying degrees of Monday’s moves would be erased. Energies were again in the spotlight with natural gas losing as much [...]

Session Summary: A good friend from central Nebraska sent me a two-word message midday Monday, but those two words said all that was needed to describe markets. “Holy buckets!”, was the entirety of the message. Knowing my friend, I knew [...]

Session Summary: Due to Friday’s holiday, Thursday close brings about the end of the week. One didn’t have to look far for signs markets are closed tomorrow as traders seemed to be sparse in nearly every market sector. This allowed [...]

Session Summary: It was as if a switch was flipped Wednesday. Shortly before 13:00 (CT) a good friend shot me a message that read, “Look at that (May-July corn spread) chart!!!” He was right. Early in the day I saw [...]

Session Summary: Tuesday was one of those days when markets in nearly every sector made bold moves. Of course we have to start with energies where Brent crude rallied as much as 7.2% while WTI jumped 7.5%, taking the latter [...]

Session Summary: Remember those gains many commodity markets posted last Friday? Well, traders broke out the erasers Monday resulting in some large selloffs across a number of different sectors. Let’s start with energies where spot-month WTI crude oil fell as [...]

Session Summary: Commodity complex bulls stampeded into the weekend, almost every market, nearly every contract. One of the outliers was natural gas, oddly enough, after the spot-month contract posted a new 13-year high of $6.538 early in the day. For [...]

Session Summary: Not only is Thursday Opening Day for Major League Baseball in the US, it could also be considered Opening Day for the April round of the Goldman Roll. The latter was obvious in a number of markets, particularly [...]

Session Summary: A number of markets made big moves Wednesday, though many of them were showing low trade volume late in the day. In terms of market moves the spotlight was on energies once again, with crude oil falling as [...]

Session Summary: If I were to describe Monday’s market activity with one phrase, it would be “big moves”. There were a lot of potential reasons ‘why’, setting aside Newsom’s Market Rule #5[i] for the time being, including the horrific images [...]

Session Summary: Markets look a lot different heading into this weekend than they did last Friday, and all it took (for the most part) was some imaginary numbers from USDA. I’ll get to the grains in a bit, but I’ll [...]

Session Summary: I’m going to start with some outside agriculture market news today, most notably the Biden Administration announcing the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day for the next 6 months from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve. [...]

Session Summary: The US dollar index was hammered for a second consecutive session, falling as much as 0.73 over the course of the day. For the record, the greenback lost 1.05 during Tuesday’s meltdown. It’s possible the dollar was weaker [...]

Session Summary: There were times over the course of Tuesday’s session it would’ve been easy to turn off the quote screen and just walk away. It looked like another commodity-wide meltdown was occurring, due in part to chatter ceasefire talks [...]

Session Summary: If ever a Monday felt like a Monday, it was this Monday. Some of what we thought would happen didn’t, and what was thought wouldn’t happen did. Or something like that. Did I think the energy complex would [...]

Session Summary: If nothing else, Friday can be called an interesting day, a day when markets both strengthened and weakened at the same time. Take crude oil for example. It was down early in the day before rallying on news [...]

Session Summary: It was another high energy day in the commodity complex Wednesday led by – you guessed it - the energy sector. Brent crude climbed above $122, up $6.81 (5.9%), while WTI crude took a look back above $115 [...]

Session Summary: Tuesday’s session was dominated by the energy sector, with our old friend the Widow Maker (natural gas) leading the way. The spot-month contract gained as much as 30.4 cents (6.2%) and was within sight of its session high [...]

Session Summary: Yes I know, Pi(e) Day was a week ago today, but market activity in general made me think of the phrase “easy as pie” as I was putting together this Commentary. That, and a piece of pie sounds [...]

Session Summary: With roughly a half-hour remaining in the week for financial markets, many other sectors have already turned out the lights and headed for happy hour. It was another big week across the board, filled with enough plot twists [...]

Session Summary: Nearly everything I wrote Wednesday afternoon can be turned upside down and applied to Thursday’s session. What was down is up, and what was up went up some more. Regarding the former, spot-month crude oil lost roughly $9.50 [...]

Session Summary: As I’ve said before, there are days when it’s just best to turn off the quote screen and find something to do outside. Wednesday was one of those days. There were some big news items, led by Ukrainian [...]

Session Summary: I was prepared to title this Ides of March edition of Afternoon Commentary “Goodbye Ruby Tuesday”, but by late morning many of the markets that struggled overnight were no longer ruby, or in the red. Some continued to [...]

Session Summary: If Monday is any indication, it’s going to be another busy week for markets. There was some early excitement over the possibility of progress between Ukraine and Russia, and while these headlines were swallowed up by more horror [...]

Session Summary: I don’t know about you, but I feel like this past week was a long month. Also, let me say at the beginning I would’ve lost my bet on wheat. May Chicago did not trade both sides of [...]

Session Summary: Late in the day Thursday I sent a message to someone in the investment community that read, “Another crazy day.” His response was straight to the point, “It just doesn’t stop.” I don’t envy him, trying to keep [...]

Session Summary: A quick check of the markets Monday afternoon leaves us with a few surprises, or at least there were some that surprised me a bit. First among these would be live cattle, with the April contract closing $2.125 [...]

Session Summary: Shortly before Friday’s close a good friend sent me a one-word message, “Wild”. In fact, I could sum up Friday’s session using just that one word, sending us all out to the local watering hold early. So if [...]

Session Summary: I could be like most everyone else in the industry and make up a lot of reasons “why” for Wednesday’s manic behavior in a number of markets, but instead I’m going to tell you “I don’t know.” I’ll [...]

Session Summary: This being the first day of meteorological spring we can certainly say, “Spring is in the air”. And a look at the commodity sector we can add, “So were most markets”. Remember the “calm” days of this past [...]

Session Summary: As we close the book on meteorological winter markets are telling us it is going to be a wild, wild spring. Of course the big news continues to be the situation in Ukraine, and the tentacles reaching out [...]

Session Summary: Where do I begin this discussion of all that happened in markets Friday? How about with US stock indexes? The Nasdaq was up 1.2% late in the day while the S&P 500 had added 2.0% and the DJIA [...]

Session Summary: The last few years have created a number of memories that will not be forgotten, oddly enough with a common thread. The last time I felt like this as I sat down and tried to write Afternoon Commentary [...]

Session Summary: A number of markets came back for more of what they’d been having Wednesday, most notably Chicago (SRW) wheat, soybeans, and palladium. I’ll discuss grain and oilseeds in a bit, so let’s turn or attention to the palladium [...]

Session Summary: Despite all that’s going on, I couldn’t let the day get away without mentioning it was 2-22-22. And if some want to add, “Deuces were wild”, they wouldn’t be wrong. Tuesday’s session was best represented by crude oil. [...]

Session Summary: To no one’s surprise, the situation in Ukraine deteriorated as Monday wore on, culminating with talk that Russia’s President Putin has already told French President Macron and German Chancellor Scholz “he intends to sign a decree ‘soon’ to [...]

Session Summary: I haven’t talked to my friends in the brokerage industry if they were doing many short condor spreads[i], but it would make sense if they were heading into the US 3-day holiday weekend. When markets open again Monday [...]

Session Summary: As one old acquaintance of the US – Russia – continues to make headlines, another one stepped into the spotlight the last 24 hours. According to a CNBC story, “talks to resurrect a nuclear deal with Iran entered [...]

Session Summary: Buyers were back at it in the commodity complex Wednesday, a day that started with renewed concerns over the Russia/Ukraine situation and never changed course as the session rolled along. Natural gas rocketed higher again with the spot-month [...]

Session Summary: The theme of the day held through the close for most markets, with an hour and a half remaining for US stocks. Early Tuesday, Russia said it had pulled some of its troops back from the Ukraine border, [...]

Session Summary: Monday was notable for its wide market fluctuations, due in large part to the ebb and flow of Ukraine/Russia headlines. To be honest, I’ve lost track of what all happened though I recall early in the day the [...]

Session Summary: As I watched the news quickly develop Friday afternoon, I was reminded of the dramatic scene in “The Hunt for Red October” when Admiral Painter rushes to the deck of his carrier following a plane wreck and says, [...]

Session Summary: If you’ve ever been curious what I meant when I talked about vacuum trade, Thursday is a great example. The idea is markets continue to extend existing trends, often dramatically, blowing through all available buy orders (in an [...]

Session Summary: It was an interesting start to the week, with the trades that jump out at me first the May-July futures spreads for both corn and soybeans (more on these in a bit). We also saw the energy complex [...]

Session Summary: It was quite a day Friday, a fitting end to what has been a busy week. I’ll talk about it in more detail shortly, but the first thing that jumped out at me was the close in futures [...]

Session Summary: Connecting the dots of all that happened Thursday is difficult. It was one of those days if you looked away or started on another project and came back to check on how markets were moving, you likely wouldn’t [...]

Session Summary: A good friend sent me a message today that read “Substantial.” That was the entire message. The thing is, I understood exactly what he meant. Markets across the board were making substantial moves. Trade volume in many of [...]

Session Summary: Whether you consider Tuesday just the first of the month or the first day of the Lunar New Year, many markets made big moves on February 1. On the plus side, the oilseed sector stole the show once [...]

Session Summary: And just like that, January 2022 is over, at least for the most part. My son Ben sent me a message Monday afternoon that simply read, “Really impressive move in euro”, and he’s right. The euro came storming [...]

Session Summary: This was quite a week. Five trading days that proved, above anything else, fundamentals still rule the roost in commodities. Of course when I talk about fundamentals I mean the real version, meaning those that track what basis [...]

Session Summary: Thursday was one of those days when you have to take a step back and think about what markets are trying to say. Starting with the US dollar, the index rocketed to a high of 97.29, its highest [...]

Session Summary: A look at Wednesday’s closing markets and I can’t help but imagine a raucous football (soccer) crowd singing the ubiquitous chant/song “Ole´, Ole´, Ole´, Ole´”, though in this version it comes across as “Ole´, Oily, Oily, Oily”. If [...]

Session Summary: I borrowed the title for this Afternoon Commentary from a song in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award winning musical “Hamilton”. The song opens the second half of the play and introduces Thomas Jefferson, played by the incomparable Daveed Diggs [...]

Session Summary: The most notable feature of Friday’s session was how some markets traded places from Thursday, most notably corn and soybeans (more on this in a bit). One thing that didn’t change was the meltdown in US stock indexes [...]

Session Summary: Was it just me, or did Thursday seem like a long day? I’ve been thinking it was closing time for a couple of hours, so now that the bells are ringing across the land it’s a bit anti-climactic. [...]

Session Summary: As I mentioned in this space Tuesday, the stage was set for quite a production Wednesday, and as the day unfolded we were reminded of Hamlet’s comment, “The play’s the thing.” Markets didn’t disappoint, at least not those [...]

Session Summary: A number of markets posted impressive moves Tuesday, setting the stage for what could be an explosive week this week. The key is the big selloff in US stock market indexes with the Dow down 1.2%, the S&P [...]

Session Summary: As we sit back and contemplate Friday’s market activity, slowly sipping our after-hours cocktail of choice, what are the key takeaways from the day’s session? First and foremost, commercial buyers were active in nearly every commodity sector heading [...]

Session Summary: A lot of commodity markets closed lower Thursday, but other than natural gas (more on the famed Widow Maker in a bit) the hardest hit were oilseed markets. Canola was down 2.1%, soybeans dropped 1.6%, bean meal lost [...]

Session Summary: Now that the January round of USDA hubbub is out of the way, we can turn our attention back to things that really matter. The US dollar index blew through its previous 4-week low of 95.57 and key [...]

Session Summary: Tuesday afternoon found the talking heads of financial television doing an about-face from Monday, blathering on and on about how markets liked what Chairman Powell had to say at his confirmation hearing. However, he basically repeated what he [...]

Session Summary: It’s always interesting how things work out. This past weekend, the cover of the most recent weekly Barron’s magazine was emblazoned with the title, “The Commodities Boom”. I know how magazines work, having written for the in-house one [...]

Session Summary: As the “old” (1998) song from Semisonic told us, “Closing time, open all the doors and let you out into the world...” Yes, the final bell of the week is set to ring when US stock markets come [...]

Session Summary: Every afternoon, I look at the markets and wonder how I’m going to explain what happened. Some days the process is easy. Other days, like today, the initial running of the traps seems to bolster the case of [...]

Session Summary: Some markets took a breather mid-week, not overly surprising given moves seen to open the new year. One of these was King Corn, with an interesting game possibly building in this key grain and oilseed sector market. On [...]

Session Summary: A number of markets wasted no time making statements in 2022 as Monday was filled with interesting moves. First among these was the strong rally by the US dollar index as it added 0.65, moving away from its [...]

Session Summary: The 2021 trading year has come to an end, and as a good friend said in a message, “What a year it was.” Rather than look back, after all we are talking about futures, I’ll recap the year [...]

Session Summary: I received a message late in the day that read simply, “Interesting day”, and frankly that’s about the only way to describe Wednesday’s market activity. I’ll give it this, there was plenty of movement with the poster-child being [...]

Session Summary: There are no absolutes in markets, but the closest thing is the idea markets don’t go one direction forever. And when sellers come back to a market that is way overloaded to the buy side, sometimes we are [...]

Session Summary: There was a lot of energy built up in the, well, energy sector over the 3-day holiday weekend. And while it took a little while to start rolling uphill Monday, once it gained momentum it became a runaway [...]

Session Summary: Put on your best holiday sweater and break out the eggnog for the 3-day weekend has arrived. But before we heard the closing bell ring Thursday, meaning another angel presumably got its wings (though I’m hard-pressed to think [...]

Session Summary: If someone would’ve asked me early this morning if I thought we’d see the type of bullish day across the board in the commodity complex that materialized Tuesday, I would’ve said no. Nonetheless, here we are looking at [...]

Session Summary: Some markets were quiet to start this two-week holiday period while others showed a lot of movement. In the latter category we find both crude oil and natural gas, the former losing as much as $4.82 before rallying [...]

Session Summary: My guess is the eggnog, spiked or otherwise, has already started flowing in brokerage houses, grain merchandising businesses, and downstairs analysis offices across the US as another holiday-season week has come to an end. There’s nothing like that [...]

Session Summary: It was another big day for most markets Thursday, something that becomes more commonplace as trade volume dwindles between US Thanksgiving Day in late November and the end of the year. However, this time frame includes the beginning [...]

Session Summary: There were two pieces of news everyone was talking about Wednesday, the latest announcements from the US Federal Reserve and the November NOPA crush figure. Regarding the latter, reportedly crush came in at 179.5 mb of soybeans, down [...]

Session Summary: In global oilseed markets, Tuesday was a day of haves and have nots. Soybean meal led the way higher as the January contract gained as much as $19.60 (per ton) before closing $14.80 higher and gaining $1.50 on [...]

Session Summary: While I'll discuss the soybean market in more detail in a bit, a quick summary to Monday’s action is it was a bad day to be a market bull. There are a number of possible reasons why bubbling [...]

Session Summary: Early Friday morning saw the release of the November Consumer Price Index (CPI), with the monthly figure up 0.8% as compared to one average pre-report guess of 0.7%. For the year the change grew to 6.8%, reportedly the [...]

Session Summary: Thursday afternoon is interesting with moves seen in one market or sector offset by an opposite move in another. For example, crude oil was down as much as $1.80 (2.5%) as Omicron headlines continue to flip-flop almost every [...]

Session Summary: We’ve made it to Wednesday afternoon, meaning most of this week’s Hump Day is behind us and it’s now a downhill slide into the weekend. Speaking of slides, the US dollar index couldn’t hold its early gain as [...]

Session Summary: Tuesday was a day filled with headlines, and these headlines helped drive a number of markets to big moves. One of these was crude oil where the spot-month contract gained as much as $3.54 (5.1%) as it continues [...]

Session Summary: A number of markets made big moves Monday, including a recovery in US stocks as the DJIA gained 2.1%, the S&P 500 added 1.5%, and Nasdaq rallied 1.2%. The US dollar index was also in the green, slowly [...]

Session Summary: As the dust began to settle on this week, most markets didn’t feel the need to make a clear statement. There were some wild swings, most notably in crude oil where the spot-month contract rallied as much as [...]

Session Summary: It took a while, but the green lights in the markets seem to have finally warmed up and are working now. Nearly every market of every sector was flashing green Thursday afternoon, with some glowing brilliantly. I want [...]

Session Summary: As the news broke Wednesday afternoon of the first case of Omicron in the United States, in California, I was immediately reminded of another first US case 18 years ago. That time around it was BSE found in [...]

Session Summary: Someone needs to let Santa know the markets still have a problem in that the green lights aren’t working. Just as with Monday, the red lights are burning bright, across the board, but it’s tough to find anything [...]

Session Summary: In the US it is time for folks to start over-decorating anything and everything that doesn’t move for the next holiday in the traditional colors of red and green. Judging by Monday’s close, at least the red lights [...]

Session Summary: We’ve reached another US Thanksgiving holiday, meaning visions of cranberries (or pie, or turkey, etc.) are dancing in the heads of most. But before closing the lights out for a couple days, many markets posted a lights out [...]

Session Summary: Tuesday brought with it more big moves by a number of markets. One of the more interesting was crude oil, where the spot-month contract initially lost $1.45 before gaining as much as $2.11. However, just like Monday commercial [...]

Session Summary: I know the Elvis Presley (and Cheap Trick) hit song is “Don’t Be Cruel”, but in my mind I can hear it as “Don’t Be Crude” heading home Friday afternoon. Particularly after crude oil was cruel to market [...]

Session Summary: What do we make of Thursday’s session? I’m asking because I really don’t know. It’s possible we can’t read much of anything into how markets moved today, citing nothing but exhaustion and the upcoming holiday season. Still, daily [...]

Session Summary: If Wednesday was any indication of what the rest of the fall and winter is going to be like, there won’t be much hibernating going on. As I mentioned in Morning Commentary, the US dollar index raced through [...]

Session Summary: The story of the day was once again the US dollar index as it gained as much as 0.37 during Tuesday’s session, reaching a high of 95.89. This is now a stone’s throw away from the next long-term [...]

Session Summary: I think I’m going to stop saying things along the line, “Trade should be quieter today…”. Similar to what we saw last Friday, the commodity complex was active again Monday with the biggest moves being made by familiar [...]

Session Summary: So much for my idea Friday could be a less active day, as I mentioned in Morning Commentary. While trade volume was down in most markets, volatility was ramped up in certain sectors. One of these was oilseeds [...]

Session Summary: The US dollar index stole the show Thursday as it pushed to a new high of 95.18, its highest mark since posting a monthly high of 97.62 during July 2020. The difference between then and now, though, is [...]

Session Summary: (Feel free to have the Dire Straits “Sultans of Swing" playing as background music for today’s Afternoon Commentary). The Three Kings of Commodities were big swingers Wednesday, with all setting the tone for the rest of the markets [...]

Session Summary: There was a lot going on in the commodity complex Monday, with the old adage “if you don’t like the markets, wait five minutes and they will be different” playing out across a number of sectors. Two of [...]

Session Summary: This first week of November was a short long week, a full five business days that seemed to go by in a flash. Maybe it was because the week was filled with markets posting new contract highs and [...]

Session Summary: If Wednesday’s close had you looking for a good stiff drink, then Thursday’s settlement may have you downing a double. As I talked about in Morning Commentary, the US dollar index posted a delayed reaction to the latest [...]

Session Summary: Wednesday was a good day to shut the quote screens off and find something better to do outside. For the most part, as there were some bright spots, most notably out in the Barn. Here we saw strong [...]

Session Summary: Some will use the cliché “Turnaround Tuesday” to describe today’s action, and maybe they’re right. This time. But I’m going to say we saw some markets give back part of what they gained Monday, while we watched others [...]

Session Summary: It’s hard to make the argument markets were driven by a sugar rush the day after Halloween given most of the trade is done by computers these days. But a number of markets posted what looked to be [...]

Session Summary: Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” would serve as good background music for Friday’s Afternoon Commentary, not just because it’s the last trading day before All Hallow’s Eve but also due to how many markets were heart-stopping over the course of [...]

Session Summary: There was a lot going on in the commodity complex Thursday, the day filled by markets making big moves. Much of it had to do with the collapse of the US dollar index as the greenback extended its [...]

Session Summary: Back on Monday I talked about in this space how every market associated with the word “oil” rocketed higher. Fast forward 48 hours and the situation has reversed, with the oily markets now mostly sliding lower. The exception [...]

Session Summary: There were a lot of markets making big moves Tuesday, with many the same lineup we’ve talked about countless times. Strong commercial buying emerged in crude oil, enough to push the spot-month contract to a high of $84.88. [...]

Session Summary: If a market had anything to do with the word “oil” Monday, it was likely to be rocketing higher. My opening statement would’ve been more absolute if crude oil hadn’t sputtered over the course of the afternoon, the [...]

Session Summary: What a week it was, with big moves seen almost across the board. And I say “almost” because I haven’t checked in on every market imaginable, but every market I can think of seemed to be hyperactive this [...]

Session Summary: I’ve long said there are days when its best to just turn off the quote screens and find something better to do. Thursday was one of those days as a number of markets completely erased Wednesday’s moves, and [...]

Session Summary: As I mentioned in Wednesday’s Morning Commentary, a number of markets were primed to make big moves today and the session didn’t disappoint. Starting with the US dollar index, the green back fell from its early small gain [...]

Session Summary: The week is officially off and running with big moves seen once again in a number of markets. And what would a Monday be without talking about natural gas? Here we see the market gained downside momentum over [...]

Session Summary: Though it is hard to believe, we are already midway through meteorological autumn. This means we are halfway to winter, meteorologically speaking, a thought made real with this week’s reports of 27 inches of snow in Deadwood, South [...]

Session Summary: Given what we saw in a number of markets Thursday, Friday promises to be quite a day. The US dollar index was able to rally off its initial low of 93.75, down 0.26 for the day, moving back [...]