Recent Content by latidude

  1. Short-term Grain Market thoughts..

    Crop progress reports continue to paint a picture that crops are in mostly good to excellent condition. We currently have very large stocks of...
    Post by: latidude, Apr 19, 2010 in forum: Commodity Futures

  2. Emission futures, anyone??

    The spot market on BlueNext in France is considerably more liquid than the ICE Europe market. And though the CER/EUA spread is highly correlated,...
    Post by: latidude, Dec 14, 2009 in forum: Commodity Futures

  3. Cocoa@Spread

    The fundamentals of every market vary. Some things to consider would be weather, seasonality (is one predominatly grown in southern himsphere vs...
    Post by: latidude, Dec 7, 2009 in forum: Commodity Futures

  4. Kospi's Nightmare Settle: Aug 13, '09

    Yes, the market knows with higher and higher probability what the dividend distributions for individual constituents will be. I highly recommend...
    Post by: latidude, Dec 7, 2009 in forum: Index Futures

  5. Any Firm Back Ag Traders?

    That feeder/live spread can't be going well on a mean reversion, market making methodology - not for the past couple days at least. Feeder...
    Post by: latidude, Dec 3, 2009 in forum: Prop Firms

  6. Cocoa@Spread

    Generally speaking futures will settle to the spot, or the spot will be based on the futures price give or take cost of carry, storage,...
    Post by: latidude, Nov 25, 2009 in forum: Commodity Futures

  7. Lng

    As long as by arb we're in agreement that it is purely statistical in nature with a slight edge in knowing information on delivery points and...
    Post by: latidude, Nov 25, 2009 in forum: Commodity Futures

  8. Lng

    You'd have to be crazy to trade the Nymex/ICE spread - products are not interchangeable -- not until LNG accounts for a considerably larger...
    Post by: latidude, Nov 25, 2009 in forum: Commodity Futures

  9. Cocoa@Spread

    I trade the spread. You might want to look up "convenience yield" on Wikipedia.
    Post by: latidude, Nov 19, 2009 in forum: Commodity Futures

  10. Evidence of Algo Trading on CL

    For the record, Nat gas is "herky jerky" as a spread because it is considerably less liquid and because it is difficult to store. The presence...
    Post by: latidude, Oct 2, 2009 in forum: Commodity Futures

  11. Copper and Base Metals Liquidity

    Iceman, that is a fantastic question and I'm disappointed that it has gone unanswered. I wonder the same. I have noticed some interesting...
    Post by: latidude, Sep 15, 2009 in forum: Commodity Futures