Commodity & Option Information:
- Option Expiration Dates List DOWNLOAD
- Futures Contract Symbols & Month Codes DOWNLOAD
- Best Trading Hours for Selected Commodities and Options ARTICLE
- Patterns for Profit (booklet) – An Introduction to Seasonal Commodity Trading DOWNLOAD
- Suggested “Rules of Thumb” for Selling Options: ARTICLE
- Selling Commodity Options Blog: Articles, Trade Examples, and more.
- Article: The Psychology of Trading Trading tips for money management, taking risks.
- USDA Report Dates and Schedules CURRENT MONTHLY REPORT CALENDAR
This list ALL reports in a monthly calendar format and has live links to each report location. - Sign up with USDA to have reports sent to you by email: Go to MY SUBSCRIPTIONS tab and register. After you registered, you must sign up for the reports you wish to receive, see ‘my subscriptions’: USDA SIGN UP REGISTRATION
- WASDE World Agriculture Supply-Demand Estimates These reports are monthly usually around the 10th of each month, exact dates can be found along with the latest report at this link: WASDE
- USDA USDA QUARTERLY GRAIN STOCKS & ACREAGE REVIEW
- USDA/NASS: Stats: Usual Planting and Harvesting Dates for Crops LINK
- Prospective Plantings USDA/ NASS
- Crop Progress Reports: National Agricultural Statistics Service NASS
Ag Day TV: Early morning agricultural program, Mon-Fri early Eastern time weekday mornings:
Kansas State University: Grain Fundamentals
- Charts from USDA data on WASDE for the GRAINS
- SOYBEAN PRICE VERSUS STU CHART
- CORN PRICE VERSUS STU CHART
- WHEAT PRICE VERSUS STU CHART
CME : Chicago Mercantile Exchange:
Periodic Reports / Supply Charts / Demand Charts
- Agricultural Conversion Calculators: METRIC TONS, BUSHELS, per CONTRACT
Link to CME Calculator: https://www.cmegroup.com/tools-information/ag-calculator.html
Texas A&M: Cotton Fundamentals and more.
United States Energy Information Administration EIA
- EIA.gov
- Short-term Energy Outlook (STEO)
- Crude Oil (STEO)
- Figures and Data
- Natural Gas Reports
- NG Weekly Report /Thursday at 10 AM (New York time) short text only version
- Trading Economics: US Crude Production
Natural Gas Weather via Twitter (with graphics): LINK
TradingEconomics.com
General economic stats for countries of the world. Summary commodities, stats on Oil, G 20, etc.
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