Soybean Oil - Bottom?

Discussion in 'Commodity Futures' started by OTCkrak, Aug 20, 2014.

  1. New low of 32.50 in October today.
    Chart looks bottomy.
    Is this plunge over ?
     
  2. On the daily chart RSI shows extreme oversold conditions.. may be worth a punt here.. The DEC contract has more volume..
     
    Last edited: Aug 20, 2014
  3. Maverick74

    Maverick74

    Dude, they are different crops. Sept rolls off next week. Beans are showing NO signs of a bottom.
     
  4. US bean oil is currently quite cheap compared to Kuala Lumpur Palm Oil
     
  5. Brighton

    Brighton

    It takes 7.6 lbs of soybean oil to make a gallon of bio-diesel. Let's say the bean oil costs 34 cts so that's $2.58 a gallon raw material cost. Unless all the other fats and greases used to make bio-diesel have had a similar drop (last time I looked they were 38 to 40 cts/lb), it seems like bean oil may have a ready market at the bio-refineries.
     
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  6. TraDaToR

    TraDaToR

  7. nvroy

    nvroy

    Relatively cheap at current level, Bean Oil still commands a premium of $90/MT over crude palm oil, historically it's been at $150 and did narrow down to even money in recent times.
     
  8. can anyone confirm that this index replicates the "spot" price of Soybean Oil? It appears to me it does but I haven't looked at how its calculated.

    that last time it registered an RSI below 25 on the weekly chart this did bounce.. based on everything ive read, fundamentals point to this not having much more downside based on energy demand and possible selling exhaustion.

    today there was a nice fakeout on the on the hourly chart above DEC 33.50

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