What’s Up, What’s Down: Grains and Meats
Comments for Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Looking Ahead to Today by Reflecting Back at Monday’s Price Action
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GRAINS:
Higher settlements on Monday for Minneapolis, Kansas City and Chicago wheat along with oats, rough rice soybeans and soyoil while lower for corn and soymeal. All of the wheat continues to move higher with Minneapolis and KC making new CONTRACT HIGHS AND CLOSES while Chicago had its highest high and close since June 2009 again. Corn had its highest high since March 5th before selling off and closing lower in reversal type actions. Corn seems to be tagging along with the wheat that has been leading the way due to Russian crop problems and monsoons in India causing crop rotting.
Oats had another strong close (highest high and close since January) after breaking out of a large bull triangle on Friday. Rice had a huge range closing sharply higher now giving me a BUY SIGNAL with its best high and close since June. The beans and oil settled higher while meal closed down buy the bean complex continues to be in a bull market at this time. Beans made its best high and close since the first week in January and the oil since the middle of May. Meal, however, had its highest high since last December before closing lower in reversal type action. BUY SIGNALS FOR MINNEAPOLIS, KANSAS CITY AND CHICAGO WHEAT ALONG WITH SOYBEANS, SOYMEAL, SOYOIL, CORN, OATS AND ROUGH RICE. CALL FOR DETAILS!
MEATS
Higher closes yesterday for lean hogs but lower for live and feeder cattle. The cattle (Dec.) and feeders (Oct.) continue being in uptrends with resistance around 9750 for the former and 1150 for the latter. However, it was the lowest low and close in nine trading sessions for the feeders. Hogs made another new CONTRACT HIGH AND CLOSE in the December contract. BUY SIGNALS FOR LIVE AND FEEDER CATTLE ALONG WITH LEAN HOGS. CALL FOR DETAILS!
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