unless you are in the pit it is very difficult to trade beans it is still an order flow market in the pit, but that will change as more and more people come onto the ecbot platform like what happened to the SPU's and fixed Income.
Quote from youngtrader:
We had a better than expect progress report monday with traders expecting 2-3% decline with us coming in at a 1% increase.
Market still seems to be trading a shitty bean crop (reminds me a lot of the corn market early in the year both technically and fundamentally) when I believe we have much more of a bean crop than what everyone thinks (at least in midwestern iowa where i am at).
We are starting to get forcasts for dryer weather in the northern belt and wetter weather in the southern which is almost ideal for a decline in the bean market.
All the fat cats that have pockets full of money with the rise in beans should start to take money before the end of the month on friday.
Although market is over all big moving averages we are running into huge tech resistance at the shoulders of the head and shoulders pattern and the top of a downward trading range.
Those are the reasons and I sold lots of calls in the wheat market today but not flat price futures (im not that much of a hero!)
I sold more beans today at 890 and am not afraid to add more to a position that I think I am right about.
It makes me feel better now after the recent posts that I am not part of the crowd in this bean market because that is deffinantly a bad decision!