1 August Futures Update

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Today was a busy day for the hypothetical portfolio. We were stopped out of our Soybean Meal for a fairly large loss. Additionally we entered to positions in the energy complex, buying September Crude Oil at 50.21, and buying September Unleaded Gas at 1.6777. Energy trades haven’t been profitable this year so far but I don’t have a crystal ball to see if these will improve our results. I do know that going back to 1990 Crude and Unleaded Gas have added profitability to the portfolio overall.

All of the other signals were repeats of signals that we’ve previously acted on in the hypothetical portfolio, and the only exit signals was a roll in Fed Funds. However, we don’t have a position in Fed Funds and can ignore the signal.




31 July Futures Update

Disclaimer- The following is presented for entertainment purposes only. Do not attempt to trade using this data! I recommend that you not trade futures at all. Among other things, you can lose more than your initial investment if you do so.

Today the hypothetical system received a buy signal for September Crude Oil, with an initial stop of 43.68. Additionally we received a buy in September Unleaded Gas, with a stop of 1.4782. These are new signals that we currently don’t have positions in place in the hypothetical portfolio.
There were several other repeats signals that we’ve long since filled.
There were no exit signals in any of our existing positions.

We are continuing to have a losing position in our Soybean meal position, but we’re not actually close to an exit signal so will stick with it in the hopes of a turn around. The trend is still bullish, even though the short term hasn’t followed through as we might have hoped.