Ag trade ideas

FCXoptions said:
What do you all use for tracking the curves in near real time? IB's term structure chart lags behind a day I believe which is kind of annoying. I guess I could build a spreadsheet to download the info into perhaps. I don't mind it being delayed a little, I just don't like getting on at midnight and not being able to see the prior days change in the structure.
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I have it real time on DTN Prophet X but IB settlement curves are in fact more useful. Stale quotes on one expiry make real-time completely false...You always have to recheck with previous day settlement. What would be great is one real time curve based on native spreads midpoint but most of the time it is not available...
 
Hmm, I believe there is a way to connect IB into excel. Maybe it could be charted in there based on the native spreads like you said. I will see if I can figure something out on it
 
TraDaToR said:
A bunch of post-report long old crop/ Short new crop volume sent it back to my entrypoint...Check the curve. If that's not a screaming buy, I don't know what is...

What do you guys think?
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-0.8... It 's like I don't have a clue lately.
 
Just saw this post and realized my order filled after all. I entered at .05. Wasn't too thrilled I am going to wait for a bit, but I won't let it move much against me before stopping out.
 
Short Mar/May 16 Cotton @ -0.17 on seasonals
Short Oct15/Mar16 Soybean oil @ -0.53 on seasonals
Short May/Jun Milk @ 0 on a curve play.

On any of those spreads I wasn't able to get even 1/2 of the desired position. I guess they will be good trades...
 
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