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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

Cotton and White Sugar are at their lowest carry yield scores for the past 52 weeks. Live Cattle is at its highest.

I am planning to sell a Live Cattle calendar this week and continue to hold a long White Sugar calendar spread

Kansas Wheat butterfly spread and Robusta Coffee calendar spread

Kansas Wheat is entering a period of seasonal strength.  The March, May, July butterfly spread has hypothetically profited in 13 of the past 15 years when entered on July 25 and exited on December 28....

Cotton and Soybeans are at or near their lowest carry yield score for the past year. Robusta Coffee and Live Cattle are at or near their highest score.

Selling the Robusta Coffee November January calendar spread should benefit from a drop in Robusta Coffee prices.

Crude Oil calendar spread and Copper calendar spread

Crude Oil is entering a period of seasonal weakness.  The September and October calendar spread has hypothetically profited in 13 of the past 15 years when entered on July 19 and exited on August 7.

VIX and calendar spread and Cocoa butterfly spread

The VIX October, November calendar spread has hypothetically profited in 14 of the past 15 years when entered on July 6 and exited on September 16.

Heating Oil and Palladium continue to be very near their lowest hwedge fund positions over the past year.

Heating Oil ticked up slightly last week after finishing at its lowest level over the past 52 weeks the previous week. finish last week at its lowest hedge fund positions for the past 52 weeks. Hedge...

Cotton is at its lowest hedge fund position for the past 52 weeks. Arabica Coffee is very near its highest level

The Commitment of Traders (COT) report, issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), offers a weekly snapshot of the positions taken by different market participants in the U.S. futures markets....

Heating Oil and Palladium are at its lowest hedge fund position level over the past 52 week. Gold is currently at its highest level.

The Commitment of Traders (COT) report, issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), offers a weekly snapshot of the positions taken by different market participants in the U.S. futures markets....

Live Cattle Calendar Spread and Sugar Butterfly Spread

Live Cattle is entering a period of bearish seasonality.  The February, April calendar spread has hypothetically profited in 14 of the past 15 years when opened on June 28 and closed on September 6.

Corn calendar spread and Heating Oil butterfly spread

Corn is entering one of the strongest bearish seasonality periods across all markets.  The December contract has dropped in each of the last 11 years in the 43 trading days starting on June 11.

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