Looks like we're batting .500 for the week with a loss in the bond market being more than offset by the profits in corn. Meanwhile, our primary piece uncovered a nice pattern in the crude oil futures that we're still waiting to take action on.
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The story in, Bonds Creeping Towards Lower Yields, which was published at TraderPlanet still holds. Commercial traders, while roughly neutral in their current position, have rapidly purchased more than 17,000 heading into this week's trading. This buying should help the support around 140^00 hold as the market makes some type of run at the October highs.
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Tuesday's corn futures trade for Equities.com combined classic Commitment of Traders' analysis along with an inside bar trigger to enter the trade. Sometimes, it works like a champ. It's a high percentage trade and it played out well.
Corn Rally Stalls on Commercial Selling
Finally, our main piece required eyeballing more than 20 years' worth of commercial trader activity in crude oil futures. In, "Time to Buy Crude Oil's Decline" we discussed a very specific pattern that we've only found eight examples of in the crude oil futures. More importantly, this pattern's predictive power has been quite strong. Read the full piece for details.
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