Sugar: On Track To Opportunity

In the real world, the supposed well-oiled "machines" of financial markets respond less like KITT, the obedient car of TV’s “Knight Rider” and more like the demon-possessed trucks of Stephen King’s horror flick “Maximum Overdrive.” Case in point, the mid-April news reports claiming SUGAR's uptrend was being driven by High Crude Oil...

Coffee: Opportunity Brews

Commodity Futures: Corn Up, Cattle Down?
Market correlations only work until they don't.

"The manner and extent of the advance from the March low argues that the selloff [in Live Cattle] that began in August 2007 has ended," argues in his April 28 Daily Futures Junctures EWI's Senior Commodity Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy.

Futures: One of 20 Opportunities
"Fundamentals" is not everything.

Commodities: Concerns, Expectations, Speculations?
What moves market prices: cold hard reasoning or fears, hunches and rumors?

Free Trader’s Crash Course And… Live Cattle
Commodities trading is not a buy-and-hold kind of game; it’s a "hit and run" one.

In the financial world, commodity markets are some of the most volatile and exciting markets out there. Every second matters. It’s not a buy-and-hold kind of game; it’s a hit and run one. Yet – every day, the mainstream experts choose NOT to be where the action is. Then, there’s option “B,” as in Being there...

Latest On Commodities: Tax Break

EWI's brand-new, April 11 Monthly Futures Junctures gives you the latest on over a dozen major commodity markets. Here's what's inside...

Cocoa Futures: All You Need Is Basics
How much Elliott wave analysis do you need to know to make basic price forecasts?

Oil Prices: Who's To Blame?
Big Oil Bashing Redux

Corn Futures: Don't Force-Fit Your Analysis
If a market doesn't conform to your expectations, should you "stick to your guns" or "cut and run"?

Lean Hogs: What Does Price Gap Mean For Trend?
How does a price gap fit into an Elliott wave pattern?

"Now for a simple lesson in basic chart analysis: Gaps usually occur in wave three, the strongest of the three impulse waves. It does not matter if you are looking at a one-minute chart of the S&P, or a monthly Copper chart. Find a gap, and..."

Soybeans and Corn: The Big Splash
How do you know at what price level you should place a protective stop?

Two markets made a big splash in commodities news today (March 31): Soybeans and Corn; the former plunged, the latter rallied. Sounds like a good time to sell Soybeans and buy Corn, right?

Futures: Five Steps Forward…
Markets rarely move in straight line. Here's an Elliott wave take on how they do it.

Markets don't move in straight line or at a steady speed. Prices travel quick and far in waves 1, 3 and 3 (especially wave 3) and it takes prices a long time to travel even a short distance in corrective waves 2 and 4.

Soybeans, Corn and Wheat: Scared By Equities?
Elliott Wave International takes a look at the recent sell-offs in grain commodity markets.

Despite the ongoing turmoil in the stock markets, commodities – such as grains, for example – have remained relative "safe havens" due to their strong rallies. But now, some analysts say that even commodities are starting to crumble under pressure. For answers, we go to Jeffrey Kennedy, EWI's Senior Commodities Analyst.

New Monthly Futures Junctures: Pot Of Golden Opportunities
Elliott Wave International reveals the content of its brand new, March 2008 commodities publication.

Soybeans, Wheat, Corn, Cocoa, Coffee, Sugar, Cattle – and more. This St. Patrick’s Day, you could follow a make-believe leprechaun to a non-existent pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Or – you could follow EWI's real-life Senior Commodities Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy to his “pot” of golden insight on the world's leading commodity markets in the just-published, March 14 Monthly Futures Junctures.

Soybean Futures: A Rule Violation?
Elliott Wave International explains how knowledge of the 3 Rules of Elliott can help improve one's risk management.

Any market forecast is just that -- a forecast. It's a truism all right -- but one that bears repeating. All too many traders fall into the trap of thinking that what has been proposed as a market's most likely path MUST indeed be the path, forever and ever, amen. If only it were that easy.

Commodities: Focus on Four Markets
Elliott Wave International discusses the reasons why four specific commodity may be offering a potential opportunituy right now.

On most days, Elliott Wave International's Daily Futures Junctures' editor Jeffrey Kennedy looks for just ONE price chart that pops out to say "HERE" is a potential near-term opportunity. On some occasions, however, multiple markets burst out of the crowd. In tonight's (March 6) Daily Futures Junctures, Jeffrey Kennedy excitedly shows you that now is such a time.

Futures: How Important Are Fibonacci Numbers?
Elliott Wave International discusses a recent rally in cotton futures as measured in Fibonacci proportions

If you've been reading articles on Elliottwave.com for a while, chances are you probably know that Fibonacci numbers play an important role in Elliott wave analysis of commodities and other markets. How important? VERY. For example, let's look at the recent rally in Cotton futures.

Futures: Market Sentiment Near Extreme
Elliott Wave International discusses daily sentiment readins as they apply to commodity futures markets.

Market sentiment is a curious thing. A measure of investors' bias towards a particular trend, if you plot it on a chart, you will see that it shifts from extreme optimism to extreme pessimism and back again. And each extreme in sentiment usually coincides with a similar extreme in price. Look at this chart of one particular meat commodity market, for example.

Cotton: What Corrective Wave Patterns Tell You About Trend
Elliott Wave International discusses a recent corrective pattern in cotton futures and its implications for the trend.

Take a look at this market chart of cotton futures -- specifically the price action beginning on Jan. 23. Does this chart pattern appear corrective or impulsive? If you know much about the Elliott Wave Principle, the answer is easy...