Search results

Nov beans ... just in case someone who is new to this is going bonkers trying to find an Oct bean contract.

You can definitely use CQG for futures and options on those markets. You might be getting a "basic" data feed with the demo (restricted to certain mkts); you'll have to check with AMP.

Have you talked to Phillip Futures? http://www.phillipusa.com/platforms I believe they are Singapore-based but have an office and clearing memberships in Chicago. I talked to them last Oct or Nov and their rates were decent and they offer trading on the Malaysian exchange. They might be an even...

Softs - fundamental news sources https://www.theice.com/products/23/specs Look for SOFTS FAST FACTS. This is the Judy Ganes monthly report provided by ICE. She knows her stuff but charges a lot for the report(s) with price and trade ideas. The freebie is worth a read; good education and she'll...

Are you referring to 50% annualized implied volatility or to the Tasty Trade percentile, which I *think* measures a constant (30 day) option over a year and then ranks today vs. the range?

Yes, there are a lot of good S&D charts there. Usually Hightower updates them within a day or two of the USDA release dates. You might want to take a screen shot of the corn, soy or wheat page. In the future you may need to type in the name of a report in the search box to find it. They've been...

You can use the sites of the big grain companies. The one above was from Cargill Ag Horizons, but CHS (Cenex Harvest States), ADM, et al will have something similar. There is also DTN plus a number of cash grain reports (terminals and processors) from the USDA (USDA AMS - Agric Marketing...

Soybean inverse collapsing, but bean oil holding up. FWIW, check out these cash bids for Cargill soybean processing, Sidney, Ohio. Usually you see bids by the half month period. Not now, and the week to week drop off is STEEP.

I forgot to mention that the more complete "cattle crush" where you raise cattle on paper is actually: Long Feeder Cattle, Long Corn, Short Live Cattle. You should also go long a cowboy hat, some boots and a pick-up truck if you want to be more authentic. I'm not sure what you mean by...

Those are big, clean charts. Free or monthly subscription?

Rachmaninov - Someone else may chime in with better information, but I'm not aware of a common spread trade in milk/feeder cattle. In the US the producers (dairy farmers v. ranchers) are going to be largely distinct so I don't think the switching you refer to happens. It's more herd expansion v...

Regarding the N/X trade, I've attached an image. Note: If you haven't tried it, BarChart is a good resource for pulling up current and historical commodity info if you don't want to mess around signing into your trading platform to get it. My point is that those who follow the fundamentals...

^ In my last sentence, I say that in the hypothetical case the Oct contract reflects a market where less than 20% of the new soybean crop has been harvested, which means it's basically an old crop contract. To me, today, the inverted market structure makes sense. In reality, it's nearly...

Someone had a similar question about Oct soybean oil so I looked up the USDA NASS crop progress reports. Over a five year average, about 20% of the US soybean harvest is completed by September 30 (in the drought year of 2012 it was double that). With a bunch of qualifiers - if it's 20% this...

It takes 7.6 lbs of soybean oil to make a gallon of bio-diesel. Let's say the bean oil costs 34 cts so that's $2.58 a gallon raw material cost. Unless all the other fats and greases used to make bio-diesel have had a similar drop (last time I looked they were 38 to 40 cts/lb), it seems like bean...

A couple more: ADM Investor Services/ADMIS. Like RJO, ADMIS does some business direct and they also have a lot of introducing brokers. Maybe Marex. I don't know much about Marex but I think they bought the remains of Refco's international business which *might* have included the Cargill...

As long as the market maker and/or the public are willing to take the other side, I'm not aware of any caps that limit the creation of new contracts. The risk, of course, is if you're in a thinly traded name or a thinly traded strike - you might get a small fraction of your desired quantity in...

Change your name to Sergei and aim for a job at ivolatility. They must do OK by selling raw data to brokerages and large traders (plus their innumerable ads), because they certainly haven't invested in updating their website or providing customers with better time series charts in about a...

FYI: On the Gain Capital/OEC site it appears that a trade made using the iBroker app is 25 cents per side. You should be able to use it for quotes, position monitoring, etc at no additional cost, but I'd make sure that's clear before signing up...

Do you get futures options chains on TWS for Android? Equity options look fine (no greeks or IV, though) but I can't see an "options" button when I'm looking at the quote screen for the underlying futures.