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Darren Carlat

Darren Carlat

Darren Carlat is the Managing Director of SpreadEdge Capital, LLC and is responsible for all aspects of the company's operations including market research, trading, customer satisfaction, and operations management.

In 1986, he started a 32-year career in various increasing capacities with Frito-Lay, Inc., a large snack food producer and distributor that is a division of PepsiCo Inc.. Prior to his

retirement in early 2018, Darren served as an Executive in Supply Chain Operations in the company’s headquarters in Plano, Tx.

For decades, Darren has been developing, programming, and testing a wide variety of trading systems. In 2010, he finished initial development efforts on a seasonal spread

trading strategy which he has continually refined, enhanced and improved. This trading system has been used for his own trading activities and is the basis of all the programs

described. In 2014, he founded SpreadEdge Capital, LLC, registered SpreadEdge Capital as a Commodity Trading Advisor, and began to offer the trading program to the public. He is now dedicated to this effort full time and remains as the largest investor in the Diversified program.

Darren can be reached at (214) 636-3133, or via email at Darren@SpreadEdgeCapital.com

Most Recent Stories

Lean Hogs butterfly spread, and a cotton butterfly spread

Lean Hogs have been in a free fall since mid and late April dropping a total of almost 17%.  Late last week LH closed higher on back-to-back days for the 1st time in the past 30 trading days.

Cotton has reached its 52-week low for % carry yield. Robusta Coffee reached its 52-week high.

Seasonality is turning positive for Cotton and I considering a long Cotton butterfly spread for early next week. Robusta Coffee is in a seasonally positive phase through most of June and doesn't turn...

Heating Oil has reached its lowest % carry yield over the past 52 weeks

Heating Oil peaked at a 17.1% carry yield in September 2023. It has also had a steady decline from a short-term peak of 13.3% in February of this year into negative territory.

Brent Crude finished May at its lowest hedge hund position in the past 52 weeks. Platinum is very near its highest.

Brent Crude finished May at its lowest hedge fund positions for the past 52 weeks. On Tuesday the estimated fund positions dropped further to 115,727 long contracts and is now over 225,000 from the peak...

Hedge fund position estimates are at 52-week lows for Cotton and Sugar

Sugar is well of the highs from this time last year. Hedge funds were net long 226,622 in late June last year and are now short (50,912) contracts. This is a massive range of over 277,000 contracts.

Heating Oil calendar spread, and a Cocoa butterfly spread

Heating Oil is hovering above the lows from late last year.  Heating Oil has also formed 2 bullish divergences where the Relative Strength Index has increased while prices have decreased.

Metals are sending mixed signals

The recent price movements in Gold and Silver mainly seem to reflect a consolidation of gains rather than a failure to sustain a breakthrough. I anticipate these trends will continue. In contrast, Copper...

Copper calendar spread and a Feeder Cattle calendar spread

Copper successfully surpassed the overhead resistance by the end of the week on May 17. However, this week saw a decline of (5.5%) in Copper's value, failing to sustain the breakthrough. On the lower right...

Cocoa continues to have the highest % carry yield score across all markets at 26.7%.

Cocoa had a huge run up in the first 4 months of the year and spread prices across the board are inflated. I expect to see continued contraction in the carry yield which will benefit “sell” calendar...

Breakouts and Breakdowns - Heating Oil and Gold appear headed in opposite directions

In reviewing the charts of the markets I often trade, it's evident that Heating Oil has decisively broken through the bottom of its wedge pattern, whereas Gold has established a classic "cup and handle"...

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