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The wheat complex closed the Thursday session with gains. CBT SRW settled up 5 1/4 to 11 cents in most contracts, with KC HRW contracts up 13 ¾ to 16 ½ cents. MPS spring wheat futures were 15 ½ to 17...
Cotton futures posted another day of sharply higher trade, with contracts up 159 to 369 points on Thursday. The outside markets were supportive, with crude oil up $2.06/barrel and a weaker dollar index....
Live cattle futures ended the Thursday session with contracts 7 to 62 cents higher. August was the exception, up $1.40. So far this week cattle have changed hands at $144-148 in the north, up $4-5 on the...
Lean hog futures were up 15 to 65 cents in most contracts on Thursday. The USDA’s National Average Base Hog price was $121.37 on Thursday afternoon, down $11.11 from the previous day’s report. The...
Corn futures closed the Thursday session with contracts 4 to 9 ¼ cents, as traders were positioning themselves ahead of Friday’s USDA reports. Prior to those USDA reports, a Bloomberg survey puts the...
Soybean futures posted 19 to 21 ¼ cent gains in most contracts on Thursday, with September up 11 ¼. Meal was up $6.90/ton on the day, with bean oil 192 points higher in September. A Bloomberg survey...
Sections in this report 1) Performance Update Trading the Daily EMA 9-18 2) Performance Update Trading the Hourly EMA 9-183) Simplified trend procedure, the same rules apply for all time periods and markets.4)...
What you need to know… The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) on Thursday closed -0.07%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed +0.08%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed -0.65%....
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Energy | +3.19% |
Financials | +1.02% |
Industrials | +0.46% |
Materials | +0.28% |
Communication Services | +0.01% |
Utilities | -0.14% |
Consumer Staples | -0.32% |
Information Technology | -0.48% |
Real Estate | -0.55% |
Consumer Discretionary | -0.66% |
Health Care | -0.71% |
(Sorted by Daily Weighted Alpha)
The Chart of the Day belongs to the S&P 500 Index ETF (IVV). You can look at 2 of the other popular S&P 500 Index funds (SPY) and (VOO) and get almost identical results. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy in 7/27 the ETF gained 4.97%. The iShares Core...
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