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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
by: Matthew Bradbard January 24, 2011 When comparing other asset classes we do not think that commodities are superior, though we do like the non-correlation to other asset classes. The performance of most commodities is independent to the performance in the stock market, bond market or real estate market. The U.S. stock market has just [...]
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Thursday, January 13th, 2011
January 13, 2011 By: Matthew Bradbard Find attached the 2010 high, low, open and close data for the major commodities. Maybe I have a bias since I run a Commodity brokerage and recently set up a CTA but I believe commodities are currently the best game in town. Please do not misinterpret me that does [...]
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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
December 22, 2010 By: Matthew Bradbard As most followers recognize, I break the commodity markets into seven sectors: financials which include the indices and debt markets, energies, currencies, livestock, metals, grains and finally the softs. So let’s examine sector by sector what should be on your radar as we conclude one trading year and a [...]
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Friday, November 19th, 2010
November 18, 2010 By: Matthew Bradbard MB Wealth Corp. is not responsible and does not endorse anything outside of the content of this article authored by Matthew Bradbard; President of MB Wealth. In the current Wild West trading environment, where 5% price swings have become commonplace, avoiding margin calls is a bigger challenge now than [...]
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
June 28, 2010 By: Matthew Bradbard MB Wealth Corp. is not responsible and does not endorse anything outside of the content of this article authored by Matthew Bradbard; President of MB Wealth. While the media circus is focusing on Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain, commodity traders should be more concerned about Petroleum, Indices, Interest [...]
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Monday, March 29th, 2010
March 26, 2010 By: Matthew Bradbard and Jordanna Sheermohamed, M.S Meteorology Weather and Climate Consultant for MB Wealth Corp. The highly anticipated annual planting intentions report is about to be released, and with it, pivotal information regarding some of the hottest commodities traded on the market today. How are the markets going to move as [...]
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
March 17, 2010 by: Matthew Bradbard click on chart Why corn and why now? Since the January USDA report prices of corn have come down approximately 15% but failed on two occasions, most recently this week and early February, to get much lower than the current levels. On both the daily and weekly charts we [...]
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
March 10, 2010 By: Matthew Bradbard There has been so much fuss of late on the great performance in equities over the past year so we thought it would be interesting to put the indices head to head with the major commodities that we trade. Find the table below that shows the closing price on [...]
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
February 18, 2010 by: Matthew Bradbard Find two charts below; the top chart is March S&P futures and the second chart is April gold futures. As long as 1100 acts as support in gold we suggest being lightly long gold futures and have positioned clients in August call spreads. As for the S&P 1100 should [...]
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
10’ Outlook January 20, 2010 By: Matthew Bradbard Much like 2009 we expect 2010 to be more of a traders’ market as opposed to sitting in positions for extended periods. A successful trader will need to apply fundamental research and technical research by paying attention to seasonal tendencies, examining correlations commodity to commodity, monitoring [...]
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