Newbie in futures here: What happened to Cotton the 20/06/2014?

[Hiperfly]

I just saw the chart and it went from $88 to $77 with a huge gap, why was that?

Thanks!

 

[emg]

I just saw the chart and it went from $88 to $77 with a huge gap, why was that?

Thanks!

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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2014/05/why-levis-ceo-says-to-stop-washing-your-jeans/

 

[Money Trust]

Welp, my system gave me a sell signal on the 17th which I got out of on the 18th. I sold out of the short upswing that began on the 12th. Of course in hindsight, I wish I would've simultaneously gone short while cashing out my long position.

 

[Hiperfly]

Nobody? I thought this just has to do with deadline or some other weird stuff of futures, I dunno...

Any fundamental news? Anything?

 

[tiddlywinks]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...all-after-entering-bear-market-yesterday.html

 

[Hiperfly]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...all-after-entering-bear-market-yesterday.html

In the week ended June 19, U.S. exports sales of upland cotton for the season that ends in July fell 98 percent from a week earlier, the Department of Agriculture said today.

This is the only info that matches the date and even though i prefer to thinkg that my ToS platform had some kind of problem, or I am missing any more news

 

[Money Trust]

This is the only info that matches the date and even though i prefer to thinkg that my ToS platform had some kind of problem, or I am missing any more news

In my humble opinion, you're worried about the wrong thing. This is precisely why I trade price action, because moves will occur before the fundamental reason is known to the public...but if you can read price, you can see that move occur in real-time.

 

[Maverick74]

I just saw the chart and it went from $88 to $77 with a huge gap, why was that?

Thanks!

It's very simple. We rolled off the July to the Dec contract. July is in delivery now and is still trading at 80 to 81. Dec is around 74. The answer to this question could have been solved through deduction by observing the cotton ETF (BAL) which had no such drop.

 

[actionzip54]

It's very simple. We rolled off the July to the Dec contract. July is in delivery now and is still trading at 80 to 81. Dec is around 74. The answer to this question could have been solved through deduction by observing the cotton ETF (BAL) which had no such drop.

Cut him some slack. I made the same kind of mistakes when I first started too and I bet you did as well.

OP, depending on how your charting service charts the roll from one month to another it can appear you have a large drop when really nothings changed.

 

[Maverick74]

Cut him some slack. I made the same kind of mistakes when I first started too and I bet you did as well.

OP, depending on how your charting service charts the roll from one month to another it can appear you have a large drop when really nothings changed.

I wasn't chiding him. I was chiding the responders who gave absurd responses.