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Short 3 March and 2 May

I am currently short march oats at 189, I will be getting a margin call at 198.50. The fundamentals for oats are horrible right now but corn buying seems to keep pulling it up. Canada has large oat stocks right now, and will be planting a huge amount of oats for the 06/07 marketing year.

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I think the agriculture markets have been acting funny lately, long only index funds are entering the market in force since the CBOT raised position limits recently. Commodity fund managers also like grains because reletive to other assets they are historicaly and comparably cheap. The...

I also trade a few contracts here and there, I have been using XpressTrade. They give free streaming java charts on all markets, no minimum account balance, no inactivity fee, and very easy to use platform. There commisions are not the greatest, I trade a lot of grains/metals and pay about 23...

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I would like to know this also especially for commodity markets like the nybot sugar and nymex gold/ silver, these markets often misprint.

I went long wheat early today. I would be careful about being short right now. Grain production worldwide has been in a deficit the last few years this has not happened for a very long time. The freeze in Russia and Ukraine is going to impact wheat supplies. The weather is still dry in texas...

I dont think I can choose an ECN, I have never seen the option to choose this. I was planning on shorting MSFT. I only trade stocks once every couple months. Commodities are my main trading tool.

CBOT IPO came out and I really wanted in but I told myself I would not pay over 70$ for the stock. It opened at 80$ on the first day and sat there for a couple days. I thought," hey I'll just wait for a pull back to get in." The stock started going straight up the next couple weeks, through 90$...

"Got my first Fine from the SEC. Did an Illegal short sale. I didn't know i did it but they fined me $25 dollars plus my profits on the stock which was $35. I think, besides opening orders, i should stay away from short sales from now on. They cost more because they are billable orders and now i...