2019 Commentary
18 February 2019 MONDAY TRADE COMMENTARY

Markets Closed President’s Day Holiday  18 FEB 2019 Monday

Comments in today’s video on short Gold Strangles, holding.  Shopping for Corn 370 PUTs, and corn fundamentals.  Why it’s not a good time to sell more Soybean CALLs yet. A Film on Crude Oil Price Wars and I’ll be shopping JUN19 75-strike CALLS in crude.

Many of the charts used in today’s commentary are from Dr. Dan O’Brien at Kansas State University.   They do a great job of market up and interpreting the USDA data and other information.  The link to all these charts is here:
https://www.agmanager.info/grain-marketing/grain-supply-and-demand-wasde

 

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Summary of my Current Positions and Outstanding Orders:

Short the JUN19 Crude Oil 70-strike CALL at 0.420 ($420)
Closed: Short the JUN19 Crude Oil 30-strike PUT at 0.08 ($80)  Filled: GTC entered to close @ 0.02
Short the JUN19 Crude Oil 40-strike PUT at 0.30 ($300)  GTC entered to buy back at 0.13 or better

Short the JUN19 Gold 1550-strike CALL  for 1.10 cents ($110)
Short the JUN19 1200-strike PUT for 1.40 ($140)

Short the JUL19 Corn 360-strike PUT at 3.125 ($156.25)

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Have a great week.  – Don

Don A. Singletary

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