
Introduction to the concept of spread trading and why it is a useful strategy for trading commodity futures. Key concepts and background information on what spreads are and how they apply to the futures markets.
We explore calendar spreads in commodity futures by trading the same commodity across delivery months to exploit seasonal differences, carry costs, and near-term versus long-term trends.
Cross- market spreads, examples using MGEX, CBOT, and KCBT Wheat futures to identify spread relationships across correlated markets, as well as live cattle and feeder cattle futures.
Explore cross-market grain spreads, focusing on Kansas vs. Chicago wheat and corn-wheat relationships, while analyzing biases, flat price signals, and soy meal–oil crack dynamics.
Learn to trade heating oil vs unleaded gas spreads with chart-based setups, seasonal dynamics, and yield-curve strategies through knob and ultra bond spreads.
This series explores the many applications of spread trading in the commodities and futures markets. You'll learn how and why to apply spread trading, effective use of margin, technical analysis skills that are unique and specific to spread trading, proper position size and weighting, and which markets provide the best opportunities for spread trading. Insight and tactics gleaned from over 20 year of futures trading, you'll find knowledge within this course that has never before been published.Contains over five hours of video instruction and comprehensive written material via downloadable PDF.