Jim Roemer, the founder of Best Weather, Inc., is one of the few meteorologists working today with a multi-dimensional understanding of commodity trading, market analysis, and long-range weather forecasting.

With insights drawn from his in-depth knowledge of technical analysis, trading and crop production cycles, and commodity markets psychology, Jim provides advice to thousands of farmers and futures traders — in addition to large institutional investors, major grain companies, energy producers, and hedge funds.

Serving clients on five continents, Jim has over 30 years of experience as a commodity research analyst and weather forecaster. His business as a Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) is registered with the National Futures Association (NFA).

Some of his most recent weather market calls have been:

• Previous warm winters from 2020-2022 and the winter time bear markets in natural gas with various options and ETF strategies.
• The collapse in coffee prices in 2021-2022 following droughts and freezes that helped coffee prices reach $2.00.
• The summer 2021 spring wheat drought and rally in prices and the ETF (wheat)
• Predicting that 70% of the Midwest corn belt would get decent summer rains and in the midst of drought. Recommending bearish strategies and hedges in corn close to $5.00.
• El nino driven weather problems for cocoa and sugar with various bullish option strategies to catch part of the bull move.

Jim can be seen sharing his meteorological expertise as a guest on Bloomberg and CNBC and in interviews in Barron’s and the Wall Street Journal. He also provides weather fundamentals to thousands of subscribers for SeekingAlpha.com and Barchart.com as a contributing writer.

Splitting his time between Sarasota, Florida, and Vermont, Jim has a deep passion for and concern about the environment and climate change.