Recent content by zatara1

When you do this cycle analysis do you use the front month? I ask because the contracts in different months are often priced with massive premiums or discounts already built in. Therefore when you call up a historic chart of 'front month' natural gas, the chart would join up each 'front month'...

Wondering why Soybean and other agricultural markets don't attract the interest of a lot of hedge funds? Or am I wrong and there are hedge funds who do trade these markets? Is there a reason why they may not do so, for instance that the commodity trading firms like Cargill, Louis Dreyfus etc are...

I read that you were a professional commodities trader earlier in your career? Are there any good books you'd recommend to understand the fundamentals of the grains, livestock and softs markets? I trade them on just price but am keen to figure what on earth some of the news and data out of these...