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best intra-mkt: N/X and X/X bean spreads (if you can handle them) best inter-mkt: live cattle vs. lean hogs

many thanks...guess I searched for the wrong term before posting.

Just bought a second system for my trading room, and had a question about battery backups / surge protectors. I live in a rural area, and voltage over/under loads are not common, but do occur more than in most areas, so this is a very critical issue. How do I go about calculating what an...

not sure they'd want me giving their names, but I have learned a great deal from a few buddies of mine on the floor of the CBOT and CME, in the ag pits. As far as ET goes, Rtrader2505 and youngtrader are close friends of mine, and nokomisjeff and bone are good posters as well.

if you want to be dead sure that your data is correct and are willing to pay up for this, either get it direct from the exchange or from a top end data provider such as CQG.

Unless you've been down there yourself, or have done a lot of floor excecutions with close friends who are down there, I don't think you'll ever understand. You are not looking at it with the correct "set of eyes" so to speak. Given I just trade the ag markets, but to this day I rely on my...

I cant get printscreen to copy all of the images from my layout. Any other way to do it??

on typical products (crude, nat, ho, etc), or are you doing some fancy stuff? PM me, I can maybe give you a few names tomorrow that may be able to help.

hey guys, seeing if someone can offer me a little help here. Do any of you by chance have the past two weeks (Sep 28-Oct6) data for the DAILY Boxed Beef Cutout Values?? Either the EOD or 9:30am estimate will do, but I'd prefer the early estimate. Lost my data for this timeframe, and DTN...

exactly...WTI/Brent spreads are what I was referring to. and heech...if I told you how to trade it what would be the fun in that? lol :D

hmm...it may be I was fading a lot of MRCI's stuff then! lol...I just remember having my best times in meats over that time period. IMO though, as far as meats go, the fall months are the best time to trade them...late August through December. I do remember a few big losers from last year...

if you have the capitilization, some good spreading opportunities exist between NYMEX and ICE contracts. If you want to stay directional and not spread though, I'd stick with NYMEX.

the meat spreads should have been fairly reliable...but 2008 happened to the grains lol :D

I need one more confirming indicator before I'll do it....9 just isn't enough :D :D

Best way to get historical charts of spreads is get a top charting software...I'd recommend either DTN ProphetX or CQG. As far as trading spreads out of Excel, I have before for complex and inter-market spreads. Works fine, although the DDE linking does have some latency concerns, but this...

interesting site George. Personally I use the NOAA GFS models off the NOAA site, but I had never seen this site. Looks handy, thanks for the link.

wow...I rarely step over here to the chit chat section other than for the daily hottie, glad I did today.....VERY cool post R!

Not really...I don't know of a single grain elevator that won't let you forward contract a smaller size. You don't even have to keep it in even 1000 bushel lots if you don't want to....also...doesn't take very much corn to yield 5K bushels...I honestly doubt many if ANY farmers use the mini...

for me its been easier to look at personal living expenses as a line item business expense. A "salary" I have to pay each month, along with the other trading expenses, data feed, platform cost, tax withholding etc. It was easier on me mentally to give myself a set "salary" than just "take...

What...no 2K for the big corn contract? I'm just suprised minis haven't failed yet...the most it takes on the "bigs" is $4725 for beans. Its not like this is the SP, where big goes for 30K. Heck even mini crude and natty are a joke imo.