Futures Trading

The Livestock complex triggered ‘long signals’ yesterday (4/3/15), across the board (Fed Cattle, Live Cattle, Hogs). As part of the ‘core’ program that I trade, Feeder Cattle is a strong performing market historically:

Trade Analysis: Feeder Cattle – 1 Contract Traded (ex Slippage/Commission)

Duration: 7yrs, 9months

Start-End Equity: 10000 – 84512

Return on Initial Capital: 745.1%

Total Signals: 74

% Win: 55.41%

Avg Win/Loss $: 3245/(1774)

$Win:$Loss: 1.83x

Largest $Win/Loss: 16500/(10437)

Drawdown (Peak-Trough): (19550)

Lets look at the charts…. Continue reading “Buy Alert: Feeder Cattle (GF H5 ) + Lean Hogs (HE J5)” →

The soft commodity space continues to experience a breadth of deflationary pressure. Orange Juice has been a leader to the downside over the past several months.  Yesterday (4/3/15) at the close, a short signal was delivered for the May Contract (K5), as per the day chart (recent down arrow 1.1675). This may appear to be a ‘late’ short signal, given weakness in this market. It looks as though this goes lower over the intermediate term.  Lets have a look. Continue reading “Short Alert: Orange Juice (OJ K5)” →