The practice of selling rallies in bear markets may be old,
but it never gets tiring. I am sticking with that strategy until there is a
measurable change in the outlook for natural gas.
The EIA inventory numbers were released this morning and
showed a build of 98 billion cubic feet for the week ending October...
The energy markets became riled over the weekend as Saudi
Arabia took a major hit to oil production/distribution capabilities from drone
attacks. Fingers are pointing at Iran and they have deferred to Yemen. The big
issue here is whether this is the beginning of regular attacks and the
disruption of oil flowing onto the markets or was it an isolated event?
The lean hog market has frustrated some traders this year
and made the year for other traders. It is all about how to read the market
properly. Granted, the livestock markets are not always easy to read in my
opinion, but they offer some good trading opportunities. The underlying story
here is that China lost a large portion of the pork...
Natural gas futures have been reeling from the first winter
weather rally in early November. This market is fairly dependent on abnormal
weather this winter to burn through excess supplies. Otherwise, natural gas
prices will probably remain in the lower end of the $2 range. I wrote about
this in my last
article and I have a feeling we will see another...
Agriculture commodity prices have dropped substantially this
year. The agriculture commodities consist mainly of the grains, livestock and
softs (food). Some commodities like
corn, lean hogs and cocoa had their moments in the sun this year. Now, most of the agriculture commodities are
firmly entrenched in downtrends.
The good news is that I suspect many of these...
