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No Lack of Opportunity in Ag Markets says M6 Capital
With planting season right around the corner, and spring just days away, it’s just about the time when investors looking for diversification turn their sights towards the Ag Markets. Lucky for us, M6...
View ArticleCommodity ETF Breakdown
Here’s our monthly look at the various commodity ETFs and how they track a simple strategy of buying December futures and rolling them annually. Plus, a comparison to Ag Traders and an overall...
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All That Ag: Price Distortion, Live Cattle, and Surreal Soybeans
Commodities have been a hot topic for financial bloggers this year. All Star Charts goes as far as to proclaim this year, as the year of the commodities. It’s not that hard to come to such a conclusion...
View ArticleHow’s Your Commodity Exposure Performing?
Here’s our monthly look at the various commodity ETFs and how they track a simple strategy of buying December futures and rolling them annually. Plus, a comparison to Ag Traders and an overall...
View ArticleThe Commodity Performance Scoreboard
Here’s our monthly look at the various commodity ETFs and how they track a simple strategy of buying December futures and rolling them annually. Plus, a comparison to Ag Traders and an overall...
View ArticleThe Headlines of the Alternative Space
Performance: CTAs should not be written off – (COO Connect) Man Group’s M&A Strategy May Boost Scale, Diversification – (Reuters) Education: The 1256 Contract explained – (Forbes) Futures Trading...
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No Grain. No Gain.
We’ve sort of been sitting on this one, not wanting to jinx it… but we can’t keep it in any longer – the grain markets are in one beauty of a down trend. It started back in May in Corn and Wheat, as...
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Who needs the USDA when you can Live Tweet Crop Conditions
What gets Ag folks excited on a Monday morning on Twitter? Live Tweeting crop conditions. All day, the people of the “2014 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour,” have been tweeting their hearts out with the...
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Shhh… Managed Futures up 4.93% in Q3
Being in the managed futures biz, you might expect us to be leading a parade complete with marching band and tumbling coppers a’ la the opening scene of Austin Powers following a month like September,...
View ArticleCommodities Volatility in One Table
Here’s our monthly look at the various commodity ETFs and how they track a simple strategy of buying December futures and rolling them annually. Plus, a comparison to Ag Traders and an overall...
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Move over Crude, There’s a new Oil in Town
Move over Crude oil, there’s another oily commodity market that’s doing it’s own swan dive of late. Who? None other than good ‘ol Soybean Oil. Crude Oil not that the only #oil getting crushed....
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Be Careful Predicting a Forecast
We’re only days away from April, and although it still feels a little winter-like in Chicago, planting season is upon us. Tomorrow, the USDA will release a crop report, forecasting how much Corn,...
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Rain Makes Grains (Die?)
Forget what’s happing halfway around the world in Greece, we’ve got a storm brewing here in the heartland of America, in the grain markets. One quick look at the Finviz quote table, and we can see...
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Will La Nina Push Commodities Lower After El Nino?
If you haven’t heard, we’re in the midst of the strongest El Nino in history, and while it might be a chilly 33 degrees in Chicago, the planet just recorded its warmest land and sea temperatures ever:...
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Ag Traders Time to Shine?
This summer could be full of volatility in the markets, but it might not be in the markets you might expect. Sure Brexit could turn equity and fixed income markets on their respective heads, but the...
View ArticleCommodity ETFs vs Long Futures vs Ag Trading CTAs
Here’s our monthly look at: 1. How the numerous commodity ETFs which have sprung onto the scene the past few years are tracking a simple strategy of just buying the December futures market of that...
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Credit Crunch Risk… Hedge Funds = Yes, Managed Futures = No
The SEC is out with a report bolstering/demonizing the reputation of hedge funds, with the somewhat shocking headline that the top hedge funds hold more than $1 Trillion in debt… Whoa.. In case you...
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Droughts, Crop Yields, and all that Ag Market Stuff…
It seems like just yesterday, the infamous drought of 2012 was upon us. It was a perfect storm (or lack thereof) of dry conditions causing the worst drought since the 1930’s. You couldn’t walk two...
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Big “Risk Off” Day in the Markets…
If you happen to be consuming news this morning, you couldn’t miss the breaking news graphic dominating the screen, as the media extensively reported on the dive in the markets. You can tell it’s been...
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The Bitter Taste of the SoyAAPL Trade
No… SoyAAPL isn’t the newest Snapple flavor, it’s the combination of two of the worst-performing investments over the past few months. While most of the stock world has been obsessing over the drop in...
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