Commodities Analysis & Opinion

The ECOP for corn has been appreciating substantially since 2006, and corn has been bottoming out just above $3.00 for the past eight years. This is a good time to start averaging down one contract at...

The action in silver is really interesting. Let’s check the prospects for the white metal, and the relevant historical analogy it offers. Is the major 2008-2020 analogy, in terms of price moves,...

The cost of extracting crude oil from the ground, based on old wells, is very low for Saudi Arabia and Russia, the two biggest oil producers and exporters. There are many other costs associated with...

One of the reasons for the extremely low price for sugar is the devaluation of the Brazilian real. Brazil is the largest producer of sugar and the largest exporter. Fundamentally, sugar is trading way...

This post was written exclusively for Investing.comOil's dramatic example educated traders Electricity has gone negative, and natural gas has the potential The put-call option relationship in...

Everything in oil this week may depend on how quickly things fall—and by that, I mean the open interest in U.S. crude’s front-month, production reported by the EIA, capex cuts announced by...

Gold in the process of building a higher base as part of the inverse (bullish) head/shoulders below. Original Post

Illustrating the measured target following the natural gas double top break. Original Post

Natural Gas on the Nymex had a volatile week before closing 2.8% lower than the previous one at $1.71 on Friday.Following oil's extreme decline at the beginning of the week, the NG market rallied in...

A favourite expression of dear old Dad toward successfully achieving one's goal was to "be in there battling", enhanced with a few hand claps, before shuffling back into his library. And in settling...

Precious metals have become the focus of many researchers and traders recently. Bank of America recently raised its target to $3000 for gold (source: https://www.bloomberg.com).In December 2019, we...

WTI Crude Oil Non-Commercial Speculator Positions:Large energy speculators strongly raised their bullish net positions in the WTI Crude Oil futures markets this week, according to the latest...

Gold Non-Commercial Speculator Positions: Large precious metals speculators cut back on their bullish net positions in the Gold futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders...

The big question for the oil market next week is what will happen with Saudi oil tankers that are en route to the US laden with 40m bbl of oil?Those tankers are sailing into a hostile situation where...