How To Trade Beans

Soybean contracts from the Momentum-5
List
are following through nicely on their biggest spurt year-to-date from Friday following the USDA’s estimate that the crop carry-over would be
smaller than anticipated and fewer acres were planted.

Soybeans
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, soybean oil
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,
and
soy meal
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all rallied. The key is finding a method to get in
on such high-momentum markets. One way to get in on momentum moves is through
the Off The Blocks
entry method. Momentum is considered present if a market registers on the Momentum-5
List
or the
New 10-Day Highs List
(or on the Implosion-5 List
or
New 10-Day Low List
for declining markets). In this simple method (for
longs), if a market opens higher and trades above the opening five-minute bar,
consider entering long. If the market gaps or laps lower initially, wait until
it trades above the high of the prior day’s last-hour bar before entering. This
will keep you out of the majority of days when a momentum market moves lower.
Shorts setups are reversed.

Basis August in the bean complex also rallied with beans
gaining 8 1/2 to 482 1/2, soy meal rallying 2.1 to 172.0 and bean oil gaining
.3900 to 15.7000.

From the
Implosion-5 List,
energies triggered out of their Off The Blocks entries after a gap up and provided
second chance entries on an intraday pullback to the lows of Friday’s last
hours’ ranges. August crude oil
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closed .30 lower at 25.95,

heating oil

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sank .0075 to .7108, and

unleaded gasoline

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fell .0208 to .7148.


10-year notes

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are triggered out of their Turtle Soup Plus One Buy
pattern and
September T-bonds
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rallied after sparking a same-day, Turtle
Soup Plus One buy setup. 10-years added 16/32 to 100 29/32 and the 30s gained
19/32 to close at 100 29/32.

In the softs, the Turtle Soup Plus One
Sell
pattern in sugar
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really hit, with the
October contract losing 6.41%.