Market Report

Market Update:

6/1/15 12:05pm

July Corn +3/4 @ 3.52 ¼

July Beans -5 ¾ @ 9.28 ½

The Bears Have the Upper Hand.

It seems negativity in the market has become the norm, as many of us wait for the “summer rally” even just a bit of bullish news, or a weather scare to provide a selling opportunity.  Unfortunately the bears continue to win the battle and push grain prices even lower, as there are clearly more sellers than buyers.  The ’14 summer time rally was caused by the funds coming into commodities with a net long position.  The story is the opposite for this summer with the funds currently holding a significant short position in grains.  As many say “The trend is your friend.”  The funds continue to add to their short position as the market trends down.  As long as this strategy continues to make money, it is likely to see this trend to continue, in fact nearly 23,000 new shorts entered the market just last week.  Short lived rallies are possible in a bear market, usually in the form of short covering.

Planting progress continues to remains on track.  Traders are keeping an eye on this afternoon’s crop progress report likely showing around 90% for corn and 71% planted for beans which is right at the five year average.  Rain amounts have been plentiful and Midwest temps have been cool.

Fundamentally we keep circling back to the amount of grain, carryout, South American crop, and good conditions throughout the Midwest.  There seems to be a lack of Bullish news.  What would it take to cause a market bounce, or better yet a market turn around?  It seems the news would have to be very substantial.  Developing a marketing plan and the discipline to execute that plan is going to be important to the overall success of most operations this year.

’15 Dec Corn

Looking back, December corn made 3 new contract lows in the month of May and starting of the month of June with a new contract low of $3.65.  As long as we continue to make new lows in search of solid support, we will continue the trend.  For December $3.50 is a mental line for some, and it is possible to find some support at that level at least for a while.

’15 Nov Beans

Beans continue to drive downward at a pace that hard to keep up with.  Making new contract lows literally twice a week in the November contract, and again to start of the month of June with a new contract low of $8.96 ¾ the market doesn’t seem too afraid to go down.  Especially with the $9.00 barrier officially now broken and beans now trading in 8’s, I am concerned that come harvest time $9.00 will be just a dream that hopeful producers will be waiting for.  I hope I am wrong and we rally back to ’14 harvest prices, but the trend is currently telling us otherwise.  With 84 million acres almost planted and Brazil increasing their acreage in 2015/16 for the 9th consecutive year, the news remains bearish.

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Greg Mockenhaupt

ProEdge Risk Management Consultant

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