Futures Market Overview

It was a wild start to Q2 with cattle markets making new lows, grain selling off and a record surge in unemployment. Payroll protection applications started to be accepted on Friday with the US economy...

The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite futures markets. It not only helps us to stay on the right side of market direction, but also helps us avoid those without a...

More down side for cattle and hogs

Lean hog futures closed with $4.25 to $4.50 losses in the front months. April hogs were $18.23 lower wk/wk. The April 1 CME Lean Hog Index was another $1.38 lower to $63.08, nearly $22 premium to April...

Cattle futures closed Friday with $0.30 to $4.50 losses; they will trade with expanded limits on Monday. Feeder cattle futures dropped $2.42 to $3.55 on Friday, for April that pushed them $12.82 lower...

At Friday’s close corn futures were a 1/4 to a penny higher in Sept and Dec contracts, while May and July contracts were lower. May corn was 15 1/4 cents lower from Friday to Friday. Private exporters...

Soybeans closed the last trading day of the week 2 to 4 1/2 cents lower. For May futures that was a wk/wk drop of 27 1/4 cents. Soymeal futures closed higher than the midday lows but still down by $5.90/ton....

Cotton closed the Friday session 96 to 122 points higher. From Friday to Friday, cotton was 31 points lower. Cotton speculative traders were 17,274 contracts net short. Open interest was 4,125 contracts...