Recent Content by jimbohanna

  1. Spread Trading

    Also scarrtrading.com is a great site to look at all sorts of seasonal spread activity going back 30 years or more. It's a subscription site, but...
    Post by: jimbohanna, Apr 5, 2008 in forum: Commodity Futures

  2. Bearish Divergence in Gasoline

    My only regret is that I didn't push all the chips into the middle of the table when it happened. I guess the volitility had me spooked, and I...
    Post by: jimbohanna, Mar 20, 2008 in forum: Commodity Futures

  3. Bearish Divergence in Gasoline

    Check out this chart: http://futuresource.quote.com/charts/charts.jsp?s=%3D%27XRB%27%20*%2042%20-%20%27CL%27&o=&a=M&z=800x550&d=HIGH&b=bar&st=...
    Post by: jimbohanna, Mar 17, 2008 in forum: Commodity Futures

  4. New Crop Wheat, Corn, Soy

    Check out this site: http://www.cbot.com/cbot/pub/page/0,3181,2144,00.html#3 Scroll down to "Intra crop year spreads" - they have the...
    Post by: jimbohanna, Feb 24, 2008 in forum: Commodity Futures

  5. Grains To The Moon

    You really expect the new crop to turn up that high again, prof? Are global supplies really that depleted? (Just asking - you seem to know...
    Post by: jimbohanna, Dec 17, 2007 in forum: Commodity Futures

  6. Grains To The Moon

    Good weather doesn't help the grain that was already harvested. But the the good weather we got last week (a nice blanket of snow to put the...
    Post by: jimbohanna, Dec 17, 2007 in forum: Commodity Futures

  7. Eurodollar Spread Campaign 2008

    Interesting - any particular reason for the wide spread, as opposed to just, say, spreading 8 GEH8 against 8 GEH9? Does that smooth the action out?
    Post by: jimbohanna, Dec 5, 2007 in forum: Journals

  8. Grains To The Moon

    Yes, margins are cheaper - but commissions are not. Everyplace I have seen charges you full price for both legs (if anyone knows anyplace that...
    Post by: jimbohanna, Nov 28, 2007 in forum: Commodity Futures

  9. Grains To The Moon

    Prof logic - I was wondering if you had any thoughts on soybean spreads. What with tight stocks and a big crush, you'd think that we could be...
    Post by: jimbohanna, Nov 16, 2007 in forum: Commodity Futures

  10. Youngtrader's Commodity Journal

    Mike - Thanks for the analysis. Do you think the same factors will lead to opportunities in bean spreads as well?
    Post by: jimbohanna, Nov 14, 2007 in forum: Journals

  11. Youngtrader's Commodity Journal

    FWIW, the seasonal chart on that BO trade has an entry on Nov. 18. I was waiting for it, and I was surprised when I saw you had gotten in...
    Post by: jimbohanna, Nov 14, 2007 in forum: Journals

  12. Anyone see the crack spreads?

    You gotta love the reflexive ET conspiracy mongering. Especially when you can see, on the monthly chart, that we are at the seasonal low and the...
    Post by: jimbohanna, Oct 12, 2007 in forum: Commodity Futures

  13. Youngtrader's Commodity Journal

    The whole grain complex is crazy. I bought a dec corn/dec wheat spread today, since it's blown out almost a hundred points farther than any...
    Post by: jimbohanna, Aug 8, 2007 in forum: Journals

  14. Kansas Wheat versus Chicago Wheat

    Forgive a dumb question, but don't the contract specs specify a certain quality of grain? So regardless of the state of most of the KC crop,...
    Post by: jimbohanna, Jul 30, 2007 in forum: Commodity Futures

  15. Seasonal spreads

    I took a bath on that wheat spread as well, but I'm putting in down to a lesson in why you need to understand the underlying dynamics of a market,...
    Post by: jimbohanna, Jul 28, 2007 in forum: Journals