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Futures Market Overview

Sat, Apr 18th, 2026
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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Before the Trade: How Smarter Stock Selection Improves Income Strategies

The difference between consistent and inconsistent results in options trading often comes down to selection, not strategy. By building a structured watch list that filters for stability, liquidity, and...

Avoiding Earnings Without Sacrificing Portfolio Balance. Why discipline around earnings creates a new challenge—and how ETFs help solve it

Earnings season introduces a unique challenge for income-focused strategies. While avoiding earnings is essential to control risk, it can temporarily eliminate entire sectors from consideration. This article...

How to Control Portfolio Risk Using Market Groups and Sub-Group Caps

Most traders think they’re diversified—until everything starts moving together. This article breaks down how correlation within commodity groups creates hidden risk, and why managing sub-group exposure...

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Bullish bias in Cattle-on-Feed report

What to Do (And What Not to Do) With Your 2026 Tax Refund

Millions of Americans are about to receive (or have already gotten) a nice surprise back from the IRS. Here are the best (and worst) ways to use that bonus cash.

Super El Niño???

How certain commodity prices could behave

ZSN26 : 1183-0s (+0.21%)
DBA : 26.92 (-0.70%)
SOYB : 24.52 (+0.37%)
ZWN26 : 599-2s (-1.20%)
WEAT : 22.47 (-1.45%)
CANE : 9.07 (-2.26%)
RMN26 : 3,263s (-2.51%)
SBN28 : 15.40s (-1.09%)
CTN26 : 79.82s (+2.16%)
CORN : 17.95 (-0.11%)
KEN26 : 650-0s (-0.76%)
ZCN26 : 457-4s (-0.05%)
Wheat Closes Mixed on Friday

The wheat complex closed with winter wheat weakness, with spring wheat higher on Friday. Chicago SRW futures were steady in some deferreds to 7 1/4 cents lower in the front months, as May was still up...

KEN26 : 650-0s (-0.76%)
KEK26 : 636-6s (-0.93%)
MWK26 : 6.5325s (+0.23%)
ZWK26 : 591-2s (-1.21%)
ZWN26 : 599-2s (-1.20%)
Cattle Pull Off Lows on Friday, Still Close with Weakness

Live cattle futures closed Friday seeing some strength off the lows but closing down 22 to 87 cents. April was down $1.82 this week. Cash trade has picked up this week, with $248 sales across the country,...

LEQ26 : 242.825s (-0.10%)
LEM26 : 247.350s (-0.11%)
LEJ26 : 249.950s (-0.14%)
GFK26 : 365.275s (-0.50%)
GFJ26 : 371.325s (-0.47%)
GFQ26 : 365.675s (-0.77%)
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