ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
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(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are likely to reverse. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other trades are … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on July 3, 2016. Click here to read the entire piece.) When I last wrote about the Teucrium Corn ETF (CORN), I announced I was finally selling my core position and moving to a new shorter-term trading orientation. My decision happened to … Read more
(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are likely to reverse. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other trades are … Read more
On Wednesday, August 12, 2015, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its latest “World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates.” The news was treated as very bearish for corn. Teucrium Corn ETF (CORN) plunged immediately on the news. Source: FreeStockCharts.com The corn season’s first “survey-based corn yield forecast” came in higher than the trend-based forecast … Read more
Teucrium Corn ETF (CORN) soared on the day by 4.0% as commodities rallied across the board. The rally took CORN into its 50-day moving average (DMA) and an opportunity to take a profit on my trial run on short-term trades around my core CORN position. (I announced the buy here). Source: FreeStockCharts.com This first buy … Read more
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to declare a disaster in areas of the state hit hard by flooding. He should have asked for disaster relief on behalf of all the nation’s corn. Illinois was the nation’s #2 producer of corn in 2014, but the potential damage from on-going flooding in … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on January 5, 2015. Click here to read the entire piece.) Three and a half years ago, I started a series that I called “the Commodities Crash Playbook” in an effort to take advantage of an investing and economic theory promoted by … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on December 30, 2014. Click here to read the entire piece.) After an additional dip, my thesis for playing another bottom in Teucrium Corn ETF (CORN) seems to finally be working. Since that article in mid-August, CORN is up 5.3% versus a … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on August 13, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) If there was any time for Teucrium Corn (CORN) to finally bounce, Monday (August 12, 2013) was it. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced its projection for record corn … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on July 1, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) Last summer, America’s corn fields were plagued by drought. The conditions were dire across the U.S. at historic proportions. From the U.S. Drought Monitor July 25, 2012: {snip} At the time, … Read more