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The Commodity Roundup
http://commodityspot.blogspot.com/
This is intended to be a forum for anyone who enjoys trading commodities or would like to learn more about it.
- Added on: Mar 8th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Recent Posts
The Gart-Man Is Right
This marks the second large gap in posts I've had, so my apologies for that. This one is due in large part to the trading vacation I am (and will be) taking for a month. I am announcing a walk-away after the severe pain I just suffered in this last...
Holy Rice Shortage!
Thought is was only third world countries with rice problems? Well, in some cities, San Francisco and the Bay Area in this article, they are not exactly rationing but they are asking their customers to not hoard any rice and to only consume based up...
Record High Natural Gas Short Positions
According to the April Committment of Traders report, June Natural Gas contracts have a record number of short positions open, greater than 182,000 (non-commercial) open short positions to be exact (closer to 182,000). Just for comparison there are ...
An Interesting Perspective On Biofuels
I was reading through the Hard Assets Investor again today (as I do every day as you may have noticed) and came across this interesting look at biofuel prices and the correlation to rising commodity prices. Hard Assets ArticleAnyways, I just thought ...
No Room For Error With Corn This Year
I just got done browsing through another one of my favorite regional publications, the Delta Farm Press, and there was a piece in there from yesterday reiterating the seriousness of the corn shortage. There is basically no room for error according t...
More on Rice
This article in the Financial Times is very brief but says all that it needs to: rice traders are panicking. And why wouldn't we? I sold all of my contracts this morning because any buying up on a frenzy is likely to end in the same fashion. Even if ...
