All Grains Limit Up Toady

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the world is quickly running out of food....

The World is slowly running out of the people wanting to take the risk, and produce the crops...
 
Quote from Shagi:
----close trading....
----ancient floor traders.....
1) You can trade "synthetically" via the options. Yes, it is slightly annoying and more expensive.
2) I haven't looked but there may be "spot" October contracts listed that would probably trade with no price limit. :cool:
 
were you guys on the right side?

i.e. did you make a killing or get killed?

How did you make your decision?

I am on the right side for most grains but got killed in cotton...
 
I got slaughtered in grains, and did okay in cotton. Ironic.

Does anyone have suggestions on a service (for pay is fine) which would alert me in advance of "pivotal" reports? For my strategy, I don't mind paying in advance to hedge properly.

I have a calendar of course. But in this case... I honestly didn't realize the report today was considered that significant. I thought the end of quarter report (last week) was the main mover. Now I read some analyst papers from yesterday, and they of course point out today's report is considered "pivotal". I'd like a week's prior notice of the reports considered "pivotal".

Any resources out there I should look at?
 
Quote from shortie:

when will grain futures reopen after today's limit up? on Sunday?

i have a friend who got stuck short in oats. :(
Sunday 7 PM EST.
 
Well, great. So more reason to be a bull on Monday.

Anyone without access to the pit floor today is just... hurting. (Well, even more hurting. I'm down -15% on the day.. but at least I managed to flatten most (not all) of my exposure.)

You could buy the futures at any point through synthetics. (Although I was surprised CME pit guys use a deep ITM call rather than a true arb-equivalent long call/short put... which is what I've always seen before.)
 
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