How Are Investments In Grains Doing?

• Fundamentally, the corn market is the more bullish of the five major grain markets. 

• Technically, soybeans continue to benefit from politically driven misinformation posted to social media. 

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• The wild card, fittingly enough is wheat were we see a divergence between fundamental and technical reads. 

Since I got into this business back in the mid 1980s, I’ve viewed the commodity complex as an investment opportunity. In the early days, back when commodities were more like Dodge City than Wall Street, it was hard to see markets in the complex as anything other than short-term opportunities. One story from back then, sporting my Series 3 license like a greenhorn wearing a brand-new gun belt into a saloon, my financial advisor had to explain to me many times I shouldn’t be treating mutual funds like commodities.