Morning Summary: When last we spoke, the Monday afternoon Barchart Futures Market Heat Map had been dyed red, mostly, a reversal of the solid green seen Friday afternoon. Now on [...]

Morning Summary: Welcome to the first day of meteorological winter my friends. Some of you are likely still digging out from the storm that plowed across parts of the US [...]

*I’m away from the office today so there won’t be audio versions of Morning and Afternoon Commentary. Morning Summary: The Wednesday before the US Thanksgiving Day holiday is one of, [...]

*I’m away from the office today so there won’t be audio versions of Morning and Afternoon Commentary. Morning Summary: As I sat down to write Tuesday’s Morning Commentary, the plan [...]

*I’m away from the office today so there won’t be audio versions of Morning and Afternoon Commentary. Morning Summary: I know my friends in Canada celebrated their Thanksgiving Day last [...]

Morning Summary: Here we are, pre-dawn Friday morning, another busy day about to unfold before us. With next week being abbreviated by the US Thanksgiving holiday followed by first notice [...]

Morning Summary: What stood out to me pre-dawn Thursday is that many sectors in the commodity complex had turned around from 24 hours ago. This time around the clock, a [...]

Morning Summary: A look at the Barchart Futures Market Heat Map (slide 2) early Wednesday morning tells us traders were back to work after taking a breather during the latter [...]

Morning Summary: If you like what has been happening in the commodity complex of late, you will be pleased with what your quote screen is showing early Tuesday morning. The [...]

Morning Summary: If overnight through early Monday morning was any indication, the coming week looks to be another wild one. The fun part is, it makes no difference what sector [...]

*I'm away from the office today so there won't be audio versions of Morning and Afternoon Commentary. Morning Summary: Instead of a camel walking around the office, on a Wednesday, [...]

Morning Summary: Like a bowl of granola, the commodity complex is a mix of many things early Thursday morning, none of them that exciting. And like granola, the dullness isn’t [...]

Morning Summary: Last night, Tuesday, I saw something I’ve waited 60 years to see. No, it was not a government report that was actually useful, after all I wasn’t out [...]

Morning Summary: On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the armistice ending the Great War, what would unfortunately come to be known as [...]

Morning Summary: We’ve made it to the second Monday morning of November, and frankly, this week began like so many others recently. The soybean market rallied initially, hinting at possible [...]

Morning Summary: After what has been a wild week, we’ve reached Friday morning. Maybe I’ve grown numb to increased volatility, but my initial run through the various market sectors didn’t [...]

Morning Summary: This week has seen markets do a lot of bouncing around, driven like a cattle truck down a washboard road by the latest social media posts from Washington, [...]

Morning Summary*: It only took one glance at the quote screen to see traders were buying again early Wednesday morning. The US dollar index traded both sides of unchanged overnight [...]

Morning Summary*: Following Monday’s big moves by a number of markets, it wasn’t overly surprising to see a few turnarounds early pre-dawn Tuesday. Though I haven’t run through the news [...]

Morning Summary*: The calendar page has turned from October to November, officially marking the beginning of the Holiday Season. (My apologies to my friends in Canada who celebrated Thanksgiving Day [...]

Morning Summary: Well, we’ve reached Friday morning, Halloween Day, so crank up the theme song to the 1993 movie The Nightmare Before Christmas (appropriately titled “This is Halloween”) and let’s [...]

Morning Summary: It’s roughly 3:00 (CT) as I sit down to write today’s Morning Commentary, making it roughly 16:00 Beijing time. I’m sure there are a number of US soybean [...]

Morning Summary: A look at the gold market early Wednesday morning raises a couple questions about how the day might play out. First and foremost is the Federal Open Market [...]

Morning Summary: Watson still seems to be under the spell of the US president. A number of markets tied to the US-China trade war, a spat that has been going [...]

Morning Summary: It’s Halloween Week, and what better way to get things started than with a familiar story rising from the dead once again. Like a zombie. As the clock [...]