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Wright Team
May 11, 20235 min read
Tidbits, Audio, Picking Strike Prices, Broilers & Ethanol, Markets & Rain Days Update 5/11/23
Highlights The April CPI (inflation at the retail level) shows the US inflation rate the past 12 months was 4.9%, below the expected...
Wright Team
May 10, 20234 min read
Tidbits, Audio, Soybean Meal Puts, Markets & Rain Days Update 5/10/23
Highlights The USDA announced yesterday morning the cancellation of 272,000 mts of old crop corn to China. That news and better than...
Wright Team
Apr 17, 20234 min read
Tidbits, Shiveluch, Soybean Meal Puts, Markets & Rain Days Update 4/17/23
Highlights A giant ash cloud from a volcano in Eastern Russia has caused massive disruptions in air traffic into Alaska and blanketed a...
Wright Team
Mar 26, 20234 min read
Tidbits, Acreage, Parana, Call Options, Rain Days Update 3/26/23
Highlights Farm Futures 2023 acreage survey released Friday favors beans over corn: Corn: 87.677 million (88.579 last year, USDA Outlook:...
Wright Team
Mar 24, 20235 min read
Tidbits, Soybean Meal Puts, Export Sales, Markets & Rain Days Update 3/24/23
Highlights After trashing the markets yesterday afternoon when she said there would be no government guarantee on 100% of bank deposits,...
Wright Team
Mar 7, 20232 min read
Tidbits, Meal Puts, Export Inspections, Markets & Rain Days Update 3/7/23
Highlights Federal Reserve Chairman Powell will testify today and tomorrow before a congressional committee. The market expects him to...
Wright Team
Mar 1, 20233 min read
Tidbits, PMI, Panic Sell, Meal Puts, Markets & Rain Days Update 3/1/23
Highlights China's February manufacturing PMI was expected to be 50.5, but it came in at 52.6 this morning, the highest since April...
Wright Team
Feb 22, 20233 min read
Trading Option Lingo: If you buy a call, are you in the market or out of the market?
We have a communication problem when it comes options. With rare exception, when trading options on futures and stocks, people say they...
Wright Team
Feb 15, 20233 min read
Tidbits, Crude Oil, Dark Fleet, Markets & Rain Days Update 2/15/23
Highlights Mexico has officially scrapped the ban on GMO corn imports for animal feed and industrial use that was due to start in...
Wright Team
Feb 12, 20235 min read
Tidbits, Nord Stream, Marketing Strategy Q&A, Meal Puts, Rain Days Update 2/12/23
Highlights The Nord Stream Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany running through the Baltic Sea, financed by Russia’s...
Wright Team
Feb 10, 20236 min read
Tidbits, Meal Puts, Export Sales, Markets & Rain Days Update 2/10/23
Highlights Yesterday’s weekly export sales had soybeans at their lowest or second lowest sales of the marketing year. Before you panic...
Wright Team
Feb 4, 20234 min read
Tidbits, Economy, Meal Puts, Markets & Rain Days Update 2/4/23
Highlights The Dollar Index made a ten-month low Thursday and then rallied sharply Friday after the January jobs report stated the US...
Wright Team
Jan 25, 20235 min read
Tidbits, Markets & Rain Days Update 1/25/23
Tidbits Yesterday morning USDA announced the sale of 130,000 mt of old crop corn to unknown. More than a dozen senior Ukrainian...
Wright Team
Jan 17, 20236 min read
Tidbits, Soymeal Puts, Markets & Rain Days Update 1/17/23
Highlights Brazilian bean market analyst, Eduardo Vanin, reports the soybean harvest in Mato Grosso (MT) is being delayed by excessive...
Wright Team
Jan 16, 20234 min read
Highlights, Wheat, Meal Puts, Markets & Rain Days Update 1/16/23
CBOT will begin trading at 7 PM Central Time this evening. Crude oil started trading last evening. Highlights NATO defense ministers will...
Wright Team
Oct 9, 20223 min read
Extra Beans: Commercial Storage or Sell Cash and Buy a Call Option
Marketing question from a client (first week of October 2022): Roger, I have about one-third of my soybeans unpriced. Am I better off to...
Wright Team
Aug 15, 20228 min read
Highlights, Options, Markets & Rain Days Update 8/15/22
Highlights A congressional delegation landed in Taiwan early Sunday morning to meet with Taiwanese leaders and discuss U.S.-Taiwan...
Wright Team
Jul 31, 20223 min read
What Are Put Options & How to Use Them - Lesson 15 - Liquidation 7/30/22
To read any or all of the previous lessons on Put Options, go to the Farm Futures link below. September CBOT Wheat Put Options. Lesson 15...
Wright Team
Jul 25, 20224 min read
Highlights, Put Options, Rain Days Update 7/24/22
Highlights Saturday morning, two Russian Kalibr missiles hit infrastructure at Ukraine’s major grain port, Odessa. Two other missiles...
Wright Team
Jul 11, 20224 min read
Highlights, Put Options, Markets & Rain Days Update 7/11/22
Put Options The high for corn and beans will be made when the rain returns to the forecast or when the crop is so mature, rain will not...
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