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Futures Market Overview

Sat, Apr 1st, 2023
No new trades today. Barchart’s Futures Trading Guide is a hypothetical trading system, designed to show you the profitability of commodity trades based on a 9-18 Day MACD Crossover strategy. The result? An insider’s view of the Total Profit generated by the strategy, including historical trade breakdown!

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USDA Planted Acreage Report, Blizzard for the Northern Plains, Kansas Drought, Coffee and More

Jim Roemer's video sifts through the main "takeaway" points in the USDA report, and then on to where we're going in the ag markets as spring evolves.

ZWN23 : 704-4s (unch)
KEN23 : 861-6s (+0.44%)
WEAT : 7.06 (+0.14%)
ZSN23 : 1475-4s (+1.97%)
ZSX23 : 1319-6s (+1.25%)
SOYB : 27.14 (+0.93%)
ZCN23 : 636-0s (+1.39%)
CORN : 25.23 (+0.28%)
KCK23 : 170.50s (+0.41%)
JO : 49.29 (+0.23%)
A Snapshot of today's USDA data and a look at how Funds are positioned.

Grain markets were able to stage an impressive rally this week! Here's a look at some important data from the week.

Shootin the Bull about more corn/less beans

In my opinion, some valuable information has been presented this week.  At the top, the grain stocks report showed a little lower corn stocks, but increased acres for this year's crop by 3&1/2 million....

Cotton Closes Red into Weekend

Front month cotton futures closed Friday’s session with 29 to 83 point losses. For the week, May cotton was still a 6.24 cents per pound higher and Dec was a nickel higher. During the month of March,...

CTK23 : 82.78s (-0.86%)
CTN23 : 83.10s (-0.92%)
CTV23 : 83.36s (-0.99%)
Lean Hogs React Mixed to H&P

Following the quarterly Hogs and Pigs update from NASS, lean hog futures ended with a triple digit loss in April to a new contract low and an 80 cent gain in the October contract. That spreading was influenced...

HEJ23 : 75.250s (-1.57%)
HEM23 : 91.625s (+0.03%)
KMJ23 : 80.800s (-0.80%)
Cattle Close Near New Highs

The May feeder cattle contract missed out on new contract highs set across the rest of the live cattle and feeder futures. For April live cattle the 80c gain on Friday left the contract at a net $5.35...

LEJ23 : 168.350s (+0.48%)
LEM23 : 162.125s (+0.70%)
LEQ23 : 161.425s (+0.67%)
GFJ23 : 200.825s (+0.46%)
GFK23 : 205.250s (+0.39%)
CBT Wheat Climbed Back to Break Even

Friday’s close left the CBT SRW contracts within a half cent of UNCH for the session. May SRW ended the week on a net 3 3/4 cent gain and a 13 1/4 cent loss for the month of March. New crop July SRW...

ZWK23 : 692-2s (unch)
ZWN23 : 704-4s (unch)
ZWPAES.CM : 6.3359 (-0.40%)
KEK23 : 877-6s (+0.72%)
KEPAWS.CM : 8.4296 (+0.74%)
MWK23 : 895-6s (+1.82%)
Soybeans Rally Back to $15

The bean market ended the last trade day of the week near their highs on double digit gains. May prices closed back above the $15 mark for the first time since March 10th. May closed 77 cents higher for...

ZSK23 : 1505-4s (+2.10%)
ZSPAUS.CM : 14.7481 (+2.09%)
ZSN23 : 1475-4s (+1.97%)
ZSQ23 : 1421-6s (+1.50%)
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