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I am tracking and blogging about my commodities trading account. I began the account with $2K, and my goal is to turn that into $1,000,000. I track every trade in the blog, share reasoning behind each trade and position, and update the positions weekly.
Recent Posts Tagged With 'investing in agriculture'
This Just In...There's Too Much Damn Corn! Futures Get Trashed
Corn futures are getting absolutely trashed this morning...along with basically everything else in the commodities sector.July futures are down nearly 8% as I write, as the USDA just reported that corn stocks are up 6% from a month earlier. Obviousl...
Corn Demand Projected to Outpace Supply This Year
The LA Times reports that corn supplies are tightening, with supply/demand projected to be "upside down" this year:This year's harvest is expected to yield 11.9 billion bushels, down 155 million from last month's projection. The decline is due to sog...
Wheat, Corn Stocks Still at 30-Year Lows
Despite record harvests last year, corn and wheat stocks are still sitting near 30-year lows. Which means, anything short of a bumper crop could send the grains skywards once again.Here are some very cool charts, courtesy of Chris Mayer at DailyWea...
Stocks Down Today...So What Commodities Did Well?
Regular readers know that we've been anxiously awaiting the decoupling of commodities and currencies from stocks. These asset classes are historically uncorrelated. That changed late last year when the financial world ended, and everything went d...
Marc Faber Loves Agriculture at These Prices
Marc Faber says that investing in agriculture today will be like investing in oil in 2001, when it was priced at $17/barrel, according to The National Post.Faber says that record low inventories, declining agricultural productivity, and increasing de...
Jim Rogers: The US is About to Have a Currency Crisis
If you have the majority of your savings in US dollars, this may be the most important insight you ever hear from Jim Rogers.In an interview with Bloomberg from this morning, Rogers said:“We’re going to have a currency crisis, probably this fall ...
Soft Commodities are Starting to Scream: "Inflation!"
Milton Friedman said that inflation is "always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon." Judging by the recent price action in many of the soft and agricultural commodities, they appear to agree.Ben Bernanke, a student of the Great Depression, is maki...
Jim Rogers in BusinessWeek - April 14, 2009
Our favorite investor, Jim Rogers, was recently interviewed by BusinessWeek magazine - he's been in the media quite a bit recently, plugging his new book A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing, which is scheduled to be rele...
Sugar Futures Rally, OJ Takes a Breather - This Week In Commodities
Sugar Futures Surge to a 6-Month HighSugar futures rallied nearly 4% on Friday, over half a cent, to close the week at 14.18. Looks like we've got a new breakout to the upside!Sugar futures continue their steady climb. (Source: Barchart.com)The m...
The Snowball Effect of Agricultural Subsidies in America
The folks at Reason TV recently put together an excellent 8-minute video about agricultural subsidies in America, from their roots in the Great Depression, to their effects today on commodity prices and economies around the world.As a commodities tra...
