What’s Up, What’s Down: Spotlight on Meats

Comments for February 25, 2011

Looking ahead to Friday by reflecting back on Thursday’s trading

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DID HOGS HAVE A KEY REVERSAL LAST WEEK?

MEATS: 2/25/11: Lower for live and feeder cattle along with lean hogs. Cattle remains higher overall but has been basically trading sideways since the beginning of January(April contract). The feeders settled slighlty lower but remain more bullish technically than the cattle. For the life of me I don’t know why I had a sell listed for the feeders when they’ve been a buy since February 14th. Hogs made their lowest low and close since January 26th giving me a SELL SIGNAL. Don’t forget hogs appear to have made a key reversal on February 16th and hasn’t recovered technically since then. BUY SIGNALS FOR LIVE AND FEEDER CATTLE. SELL SIGNAL FOR LEAN HOGS. CALL FOR DETAILS!

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Rick Alexander has been a broker and analyst in the futures business for over thirty years. He is a Vice-President for Sales and Trading at the Zaner Group (www.zaner.com) a Chicago-based futures brokerage firm. Email Rick at ralexander@zaner.com or call toll-free (888) 281-4158.

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