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That link did not work. Can you provide another one? By the way, anyone else have good luck this past week with Wheat?

Answer: While messing around in Think or Swim, I ran across the following Order Execution option: 1. Right-click and select "Buy" to create an order. Click edit. http://i.imgur.com/fqbju.png 2. The "Order Entry Tools" menu will pop up. Click on the gear icon on the right side...

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I am using the ThinkorSwim platform. Attached, you will find a picture of the type of order I want to make. Explanation: I want to make an order that triggers when the market goes up to or passes, for example, 1000 cents. Once the price reaches 1000 cents, I want to submit a Trailing Stop...

I'm new to the idea of spread trading. I'm looking at both charts and can't really see the difference. Are you talking about the price discrepancy? Don't all contracts differ in price by a bit?

I've heard that the information on the CoT can be useful. Before I spend time learning about it, I'm wondering: How many of you use the CoT on a regular basis? Do you guys find the CoT a useful tool with regards to forecasting the behavior of the Agricultural Markets? If not, which markets do...

Imgur Image containing screenshot of question. The "Current Market Value" price is often different from the "Last" price. What's the difference in meaning between the two values? I did a couple searches on Google, in ThinkorSwim's documentation, and on Investopedia, but found nothing that...

Thanks for the information. It gives me a new set of questions, if you wouldn't mind: I'm very interested in knowing why exactly are you recommending these fields to me? In particular, what is taught in agriculture, computer engineering (versus computer science, if there is a difference), and...

Thanks. That's really helpful. Prior to your explanation, I was still a little fuzzy as to why the speculator stepped in. :) Maybe I'm just thick, but I don't see how that is helpful at all. emg, how do you personally use that data to make trading decisions? Any insight would be helpful...

Interesting. Well, thanks everyone for the quick replies to these questions. The people on this forum are invaluable in the help they provide. Thanks. :p

Thanks, Lornz. That makes sense.

RE: schizo I think I understand what you're saying. So, I'm a farmer and to cover my costs and make a decent profit, I'd want to sell my wheat at $7 per bushel. So, I participate in the futures market and short at $7. Now, say the price of wheat is down to $5 per bushel when it's time...

Okay, then the whole concept is often explained incorrectly. I've read passages similar to the following several times: So, now my question is to understand how farmers use the market to hedge themselves against unforseen events. I'm sure the methods used by grain producers is very complex...

So, forward delivery prices are known. Then spot trading of surplus crop is what creates the price fluctuations? That can't be right. That would mean that what we're trading isn't Futures Contracts, it's contracts on what is being sold right here, right now. We are trading June wheat and...

Okay, thanks. But that raises another question: What role does the speculator play? Let's say that the farmer sets up his contracts for the next year or so. All the wheat from that farmer has a set price. Now imagine all wheat farmers participate in the wheat market in a similar way. Then...

Thanks. I just bought them both electronically and I'm reading the first one now. :cool:

Okay, say we have grain producers A, B, and C. They are looking to make contracts for December 2013 Wheat for a certain portion of their grain. A sets his contract at $5 per bushel, B at $6, and C at $7. So, the average price between the producers is $6 per bushel. Is that more realistic...

$4 is a purely hypothetical price. I'm just trying to understand how the market works. As for options, I haven't read anything about Options. All these questions are coming from reading about futures. The articles I read were from "Futures Fundamentals" article on Investopedia.

I did a google search and looked at the first three links. Agriculture.com: This showed the prices that show up in the ThinkorSwim client, so that's not it. MGEX.com: I could look at information on the wheat sold in several different locations, which is not what I'm looking for. Then...

The airlines don't set a contract price for ALL their tickets before the tickets are ever sold. On the other hand, the grain producers DO set the price for ALL their wheat, so as to hedge against price fluctuations in the future. At least, this is how I understand it. So, I can understand...