Agriculturals

My Odd Fetish With Grains

October 9, 2011

My interests are very specific, and I want to gather a small group of people who share my odd fetish with Grains… the seasonal nature of agricultural futures contract prices, that is!

 

Why I’m Fascinated By The Price Of Grains

Trading The Grains is a specialized area within agricultural futures.  The price of Grains are strongly effected by the weather and the over all growing seasons in North and South America.  It is my belief that weather patterns will continue to become more violent over the next several decades, and wild swings in the prices of main food supplies in the world are inevitable.

Preparing To Start A Specialized Forum

Many of you seasonal trading buffs are already active on a range of futures trading forums, and I also want to get to know these places as part of my planning and research in preparing my own online trading community.

As I learning about the benefits and best parts of the biggest forums that focus on futures trading, I’ll have a better idea on what to include when I create the Futures Trading Primer Forums.

After blogging and venturing out into the best futures trading forums to find pockets of discussions about the Grains and seasonal futures trading, I plan to create my own forums and spend a couple years writing and making video blogs about trading Corn, Wheat, Oats and Soybeans.

Futures Trading Buddies

An important part of trading successfully involves learning from like-minded people.

Good ideas are like a fresh glass of water, you need to drink several every day for optimal health – and I’m always looking for good ideas for all aspects of trading, from planning a trade, selecting an entry point, setting a stop loss and any thoughts and experiences with the psychology of trading for profit.

 

 

 

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What Futures Trading Forums Do You Suggest?

If you have a favorite Futures Trading Forum that you would recommend, please post the link and your thoughts about the community as a comment below!

 

Finding The Best Futures Trading Forums

I’m a Googler, so I searched Google and opened a new browser tab for each of the top ranking websites.

Elite Trader Forums are massive!  A great variety of conversations on very specific trading methods. It has an active membership of helpful people with several hundred posts each.  It will take a while to comb through everything as the search function on their website only works if you are registered and logged in.

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/

The Day Trading Forum is clear and easy to read.  The forums are active, current and full of fantastic chart images with analysis and commentaries! I went and followed their twitter account!

http://www.mypivots.com/board

Trader Laboratory looks like it is created with the full version of the amazing vBulliten forum software that I’ve been wanting to use for Futures Trading Primer! While the community doesn’t appear as active, I think I’ll register there and write an article or two.

http://www.traderslaboratory.com

Big Mikes Trading looks interesting. This website has a live chat box, an active forum and an elite community that had more action than the public part of the forum when I dropped in for a look around! I’m glad to add this forum onto the list because it’s certainly one that I want to visit again.

http://www.bigmiketrading.com/

Support And Resistance - Also known as The Commodity Cafe, this forum has been active for years and years.  A very simple version of some early Internet forum software with a vibrant community of very experienced traders.

http://www.supportandresistance.com/cgi-bin/bbs60x/webbbs_config.pl

Traders Log Forum is a nice layout. The top section of the site has lots of posts that seem to get lots of views, however I don’t see many conversations within the forum.  Tricky balance between content and community…

http://www.traderslog.com/forum/

Trade 2 Win was a nice surprise to find. This forum is huge, well organized, and conversations are running rampant! This forum covers everything, and within minutes I see I’ll be back to lurk here on a regular basis! Just in my small area of focus, the Grains – I see the Market Wrap For Daily Agri Commodity Report can get 200 comments on the day it is published!

http://www.trade2win.com/boards/

List Of Trading Forums -  I was disappointed to find the majority of the list of Commodity Futures Trading Forums, Chat, Discussion Boards, Bulletin Boards, IRC, Hotcomm and Paltalk Rooms on Commodity Central were no longer online.

http://www.commoditycentral.com/forums/

 

 

 What Trading Forums Do You Suggest?

Am I missing a good Commodities or Futures Trading Forum?

If you have a favorite Futures Trading Forum that you would recommend, please post the link and your thoughts about the community as a comment below!

 

 

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