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Dear Traders, As the principal of a high school and a former member of a floor trading group at the CBOT I've worked with our economics teachers to add a unit on the role of futures markets to our economics classes which are required for graduation. The point of the overall...

@ George Never heard of it. Knowing your interest in wheat do you have any thoughts on the dry weather in the Ukraine and its impact on wheat yields?

Hopefully the dairy trade will really take off. I know i'm thinking of leasing a seat in specializing in trading the crush spread in dairy. On another note of failed contracts. Where are the Minneapolis Black Tiger Gulf Shrimp futures when you need them?

stop. save about 20k. paper trade in the meantime.

I worked briefly on the floor clerking in the bean option pit and rather enjoyed it. I was always curious as to what percent of the floor traders in the straight bean pit were just scalping or spreading. I was always curious about that. From my perspective it seemed like quite a few...

If this prediction were to repeat perhaps it's worth buying some inexpensive deep OTM calls or call spreads in ZOZ 11 and ZWN 11

I like beans rallying into the close. Looks like beans could really run.

great call shagi

http://elainemeinelsupkis.typepad.com/earth_news/2008/05/elaine-meinel-1.html an interesting article. not rather scientific. but if does speak of the cool wet summer volcanic effect.

I remember hearing once or reading somewhere a statistic that a world wide volcanic event can lead to an 11% increase in the price of wheat. Not sure why that random statement sticks in my head but have been watching the eruption coverage in iceland with some thoughts about potential...

I like your call and hope its dead on. Have been long SN @ 960 and enjoyed the bullish close today.

SN / SX picks up 7 cents on Friday. Anyone have any thoughts on how far this old crop / new crop spread might go? Any thoughts on CN / CZ going to fully carry around 39 ?

In general for the grains the World Ag Supply and Demand monthly reports are important. Prospecitve plantings and I like to look at the weekly Commitment of trades. For grains though in general the World Ag supply and demand is important as numbers are often revised. The recent down trend in...

As a rule of thumb I like to be long gamma going into reports and usually take my other positions (or short options) off before them. I have a feeling you might be right about something is going to happen in the grains. The China news gave a little kick yesterday but it was given back today...

I'm curious as to how frequent an occurrence it is for new traders to blow out a few accounts as they begin. Seems like everyone who is still in this trading for a living business has blown out an account or two in the past.

As Warren Buffet said, "Your life should be exciting not your investing." Thanks for the response Shaqi. Any rules you'd like to share though in terms of your own successful trading or lessons learned in the past regarding % risk on each trade?

Going back to their Dutch roots I believe ING is considering offering a tulip ETF. Should keep the bulls a charging.

I'd agree but better get into this one early and go all in.

i think the long term outlook for tulips is certainly bullish. We could approach the contract highs set in february of 1637. Probably a good time to buy deep OTM calls.

It seems the more I trade the more I realize that sound money management and risk principals are essential for successful traders. I'm curious as to what rules the pros apply to themselves. I've heard it argued that one should only trade with a certain percentage of their capital to leave the...