MarketEdge PM Comments

Aug 09, 2023


(Cody Forde)
 
Good afternoon,
Market action was choppy! At the start of the day, it looked hopeful the market might close over $5.01 December futures but that slowly faded as the markets did. December corn last trade was $4.96 down 2^6. November soybeans last trade was $13.09^6 up 3^6 on the day. We did have a new crop sale of 251 MMT to China. Outside markets were a mixed bag with oil trading higher and stocks trading mixed.
Some soybean levels to watch are $12.80 for strong support. We have made several dips and goes from that area. From the current chart pattern on November soybeans, it looks to be making a cup and handle. If this patten holds, we could see a run back up to the gap made on July 31st. That would push November soybeans back above $13.75. If we would fail at the $12.60 market, I would fear a retest of the May 30th low.

The August crop report will be released tomorrow at 11:00 a.m.  Some price statistics from past August reports. For 2022, corn was up 2 cents and then down 39 cents the following week. For 2021, corn was up 7 cents and down 24 the following week. For 2020, corn was up 4 cents and up 17 cents the following week. For 2022, soybeans were down 17 cents and then 67 cents lower the following week. For 2021, soybeans were down 4 cents and then down 5 cents the following week. For 2020, soybeans were up 11 cents and then up 41 cents the following week.
  • Crude oil traded $84.26 per barrel up 1.34.
  • The E-mini Dow traded 35,386 down 9 points.
  • Gold traded $1949.5 down 10.4 per OZ.
  • Bitcoin traded $29,595 per coin down 480 dollars per coin.

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