traderdannorcini.blogspot.com / By Dan Norcini / September 19, 2014
There are two factors that are now finally becoming begin to seriously take hold among those who kept insisting that grains would experience a bounce higher. The first of these is the sheer size of the upcoming harvest. The latter is the strength in the US Dollar.
Early harvest results are rolling in and they are impressive! With forecasts calling for warm and mostly dry weather, harvest progress will continue as the combines move north. As the actual results are known, traders are realizing the old adage that, ” a big crop gets bigger”.
All three grains/beans are lower this morning with beans looking like they are accelerating down. I am most interested in seeing this afternoon’s COT reports on the corn because I want to see if any of the large specs ( hedge funds and other large reportables) are still net long corn or if they have whittled down those positions any.
My concern for corn is very simple – IF, and this is a big “IF”, that just-mentioned group remains as sizeable net longs, corn is in danger of having more downside than many are currently thinking. The reason? Those guys are going to have to get out of those losing longs.
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