FIRST NOTICE DAY PRESSURE. CATTLE MARGIN CALLS OVER?
AUDIO COMMENTARY
Trend is your friend in cattle
Today’s candle makes pause in cattle
Cattle making news headlines
Ride it up and protect with short term puts
Margin eating guys alive in cattle. Utilize a strategy
Could see short term weakness in corn with first notice day
What to do with your basis contracts
Weather is taking bushels off
Don’t get backed into a corner if you know you will be forced to supply the market
If your beans go to China, capture the carry & don’t deliver. Basis could get worse
Do not give in and sell a horrible basis
Still like owning wheat down here
No one is going to sell corn after being forced to sell here
Made corn lows today a year ago
Ugly candle in cattle today (chart below audio)*
Areas we need to hold (charts below audio)*
Corn, beans & wheat chart below audio*
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CHART BREAKDOWNS
Dec Corn 🌽
We rejected right off the 61.8% level up to the mid-July highs as expected.
Now I am looking for us to test the golden zone of this entire mini rally.
That comes in at $4.01 to $4.04
We need to hold that area, or it opens the door to test those contract lows.
Whether we bounce there or not will tell us if this is just a pullback or part of a deepr correction.
To the upside, as I have been mentioning, we need to close above $4.16 to confirm we are headed higher. Until we do so, this entire rally is seen as a correctional bounce.
Nov Beans 🌱
Currently hovering above the golden zone retracement of this recent mini rally.
That comes in at $10.40 to $10.44
Ideally, we hold here. That would be a standard correction level.
If we break below the green box, it opens the door to test the bigger picture golden zone of this entire rally. Which comes in at $10.12 to $10.22 (blue box).
So $10.40 is an important spot to hold short term.
If we break above those recent highs, I think it opens to the door to test the $10.80-85 range. But need to hold this green box first.
Dec Chicago Wheat 🌾
This first chart is a close up so you can view the fib levels. Scroll to see the bigger picture chart.
But we rejected right off the 61.8% level up to those early August highs.
We are now testing the 61.8% retracement of this entire mini rally.
We need to hold here or it opens the door to test contract lows again.
To the upside, if we break above $5.33 that would be our green light that we are likely headed higher.
Here is the bigger picture view.
Still sitting in this massive wedge.
Eyeing the top of the wedge if we get a real upside move.
Feeder Cattle 🐮
Today we left a nasty candle.
We haven’t seen one of these in a long time after posting new highs.
This candle definitely give you a reason to be cautious here.
As this is the type of candle that often happens before a reversal.
Past Sell or Protection Signals
We recently incorporated these. Here are our past signals.
Aug 22nd: 🌱
Soybean sell signal & hedge alert.
July 31st: 🐮
Cattle sell signal & hedge alert.
July 10th: 🐮
Cattle sell signal & hedge alert.
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June 5th: 🐮
Cattle sell signal & hedge alert.
June 2nd: 🌾
MPLS wheat sell signal.
April 10th: 🌽
Old crop corn sell signal.
March 19th: 🐮
Cattle hedge & sell signal.
Feb 18th: 🌽 🌾
Old crop KC wheat & old crop corn signal.
Jan 23rd: 🌽 🌱
Corn & beans old crop sell signal.
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Jan 15th: 🌽 🌱
Corn & beans hedge alert/sell signal.
Jan 2nd: 🐮
Cattle hedge alert at new all-time highs & target.
Dec 11th: 🌽
Corn sell signal at $4.51 200-day MA
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Oct 2nd: 🌾
Wheat sell signal at $6.12 target
Sep 30th: 🌽
Corn protection signal at $4.23-26
Sep 27th: 🌱
Soybean sell & protection signal at $10.65
Sep 13th: 🌾
Wheat sell signal at $5.98
May 22nd: 🌾
Wheat sell signal when wheat traded +$7.00
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