Author: Ivan

Spec trade: Buy 2 July mini-beans at the MKT, 1660 last with a 1625 stop. Trade consolidation is setting up for a push to 1740-1760.

Grain values retreat overnight. Grain futures are lower in the typical mid-week slump as the market starts prepping for the upcoming three-day weekend with markets closed for Good Friday for Easter weekend. News is becoming stagnant, with a wet Midwest, dry HRW wheat plains, and the war continues in Ukraine as well-known topics that have…

Commodity values higher overnight. Commodity futures opened higher in the evening session and moved higher throughout the night session, into the release of the 7:30 a.m. CPI data. It came in at the lower side of expectations at a rate of 8.5%, with a range of guesses of 8.3-9.1%. Either way, it’s the worst in…

Spec trade: Buy a July Soybean at 1632.4 GTC with a 1616 stop.

Spec trade: Place GTC order to exit long July KC wheat at 1155 for a $3,500 gain, currently 1151.

Wheat and corn find renewed buying, soybeans stall at 17.00 Grain futures opened firm overnight on dry HRW wheat weather, lack of any Russian/Ukraine resolution, and Midwest cool/wet weather. Wheat advanced with corn making new contract highs from the July contract forward, while soybeans retreated from $17.00 as concerns with China’s lockdowns that commerce will…

WASDE 4/8/22 Old crop corn and wheat carry out numbers are negative to price expectations.  World wheat numbers are positive to price expectations and world corn numbers are negative.

WASDA data out at 11:00 AM Central today. After a volatile mixed overnight session, grain futures closed on their highs, with July December corn futures at their contract highs. Today’s USDA supply-demand data will be closely scrutinized at 11:00 a.m. on how they play with balance sheets by inputting trend yields or better than trend…

Spec Trade: Buy a July KC Wheat at the MKT, 1085 last with a 1042 stop below Tuesdays gap.

CONAB lowers bean production and raises corn. Grain futures were softer overnight, while soybeans were firm ahead of this morning’s CONAB report out of Brazil. CONAB estimated the Brazilian crop at 122.4 MMTs while raising corn production to 215.6 MMTs. The numbers were in line with early estimates, but the corn crop is still an…