Showing posts with label wheat spread. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wheat spread. Show all posts

Monday, November 1, 2010

Wheat contango and other ags

Prices of many ags continue ripping higher.  Any trend-following system would be long a bunch of them and raking it in lately.  In constrast, wheat is struggling to make any headway as the contango widens even further.  Stay short long-dated wheat futures and long other long-dated ag futures

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Wheat spread - Minneapolis against Chicago

Minneapolis wheat is generally higher quality than Chicago wheat, as reflected in the long-term spread in which Chicago normally trades at a discount.



Right now the Dec contract spread is bouncing off of fairly abnormal levels:


Looks like a good time to jump in and risk a little bit on the spread.  Always remember that spreads can get way more extreme than you can imagine.