ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
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