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Chris Swift

Chris Swift

Chris Swift is a commodity broker with 34 years of risk management experience in the livestock and grain futures markets for producers as well as institutional clients. As the principal broker of Swift Trading, Chris Swift is based in Nashville, TN,  with a branch office in Delray Beach, FL managed by Chris Winward.  In addition to offering brokerage services, Chris Swift authors two daily commentaries and hosts RFD-TV's Market Day Report as a commodity analyst. For more information or to sign up for a free 30-day commentary trial, visit www.swifttradingco.com

Most Recent Stories

Shootin' the Bull about preparing for the next move down

Cattle feeders continue to inhale negative margins.  Futures traders are gracious in now providing a negative basis, but not gracious enough to reduce the negative margins.

Shootin' the Bull about negative margins increasing

Cattle feeders are finding themselves battling increasing negative margins again.

Shootin' the Bull about slamming the basis shut

An eventful day of higher trading that pretty much closed the basis spread shut.

Shootin' the Bull about selling soybeans and corn

I recommend selling soybeans and corn.  This is a sales solicitation.  I continue to read from multiple sources, and hear from many more, that state there is an abundance of grains and oilseeds to be...

Shootin' the Bull about digesting the negative events

The basis is believed wide enough that futures traders may need further reason to sell futures out from underneath the cash market.

Shootin' the Bull about extremes

There is little to interject that hasn't been done so to extremes today

Shootin' the Bull about returning to normality

In my opinion, normality is beginning to return to the cattle industry.

Shootin' the Bull about Packer margins and heavy cattle

Packers have regained margin with cattle feeders marketing bison sized carcasses.

Shootin' the Bull about it could have been worse

The vacancies left in the south from the southern border closure were filled in the north, in belief the north felt they may have obtained a stranglehold.

Shootin' the Bull about some moderation

The abnormalities of the past couple of years are believed moderating.

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National Average Gas Price falls below $3/gallon for the first time in 4.5 years 🚨 Congrats everyone, we did it 🥳🫂 https://t.co/Bz3ISXaxRd
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Home Depot $HD forms a Death Cross ☠️ for the first time since April 🚨 The last one marked the bottom 👀📈 https://t.co/w3eH5GqHJv
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Natural Gas spikes to highest price in 3 years 📈📈 https://t.co/hRlDg5Vxe9
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