Summertime Soy

06/23/10 07:50:06 AM

by Austin Passamonte

Here's the midterm price view of the soybean futures market.

Security: S
Position: N/A

The old crop is fading while the new crop is growing. Weather conditions are in play. Production acreage, bushels per acre yield and all the fundamental factors are in full force. This is a time when grains become volatile — more so than usual, depending on weather in the grain belts.

FIGURE 1: SOYBEAN FUTURES, WEEKLY

Graphic provided by: TradeStation.

Figure 1, the weekly chart view of soybean futures, shows a long-term wedge building pressure toward the front third of this two-year pattern. A smaller trendline of support (dashed blue, Figure 2) has recently given way as prior support now presumes future resistance. From here, it needs to climb back above that layer and continue on higher through the 1020s if an upside breakout is in the cards.

FIGURE 2: SOYBEAN FUTURES, WEEKLY

Graphic provided by: TradeStation.

Adding a horizontal trendline marking price magnetism, we can see where the 920s zone has been pivotal on both sides of the equation since at least April 2008. There have been a few swings above and below since then. Soybean futures have spent the past four weeks at that critical magnet. Recent open and close above has the market waiting until the next levels are resolved.

FIGURE 3: SOYBEAN FUTURES, DAILY

Graphic provided by: TradeStation.

Dialing into the daily-chart view (Figure 3) shows recent sideways consolidation from mid-May onward has rolled through an expanding "megaphone" pattern of instability. The higher high/lower low expansion of consolidation has expended energy instead of storing it in coiled fashion. This particular pattern usually (but not always) resolves with a downside break. Closes above the upper trendline could negate that, but this remains a weak to bearish price pattern until the market has clearly proven otherwise.

Austin Passamonte

Austin is a private trader who trades emini stock index futures intraday. He currently trades various futures markets from home in addition to managing a trader's educational forum

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