Trading Agricultural Futures
This course provides an overview of the agricultural futures market by explaining key concepts and defining important related terms.
This introduction to the trading futures in the agricultural market introduces key terms and concepts. Topics include agricultural contract specifications, FCMs, futures exchanges, mark to market. and margins to various futures spread strategies. Also discussed are old vs. new crop, the hog/corn ratio, and intermarket processing spreads. This course is all you’ll need to get started in agricultural futures markets. The course also asks which factors move agricultural futures including: Where it is grown (or raised)? What it is being used for? Major industry participants as well as global production/consumption, weather, carryover, storage, transportation, seasonality, and technical analysis.
Topics include:
- Key advantages and limitations of agricultural futures markets
- Why commercial hedgers use futures
- What moves agricultural markets
- Why hedgers and speculators trade agricultural futures spreads
- Why technical analysis is used by agricultural futures traders
- Role of seasonality in trading agricultural futures markets
