Free Futures Spread Trading Strategies - Grains Spread

We publish free futures spread seasonal trading strategies each month. Each trading strategy includes current chart (daily updated), backtest including results for each historical year and also cumulative absolute return.

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Futures Spread Strategy For April, 2016 - Buy SMN16-SMV16

This futures spread combines several conditions to create good trading opportunity.

  • 95% Win in last 20 years
  • All seasonal patterns up to 30 years have similar movement and correlation over 90%
  • Possible to entry at support and use a small stop-loss
  • Historical lows - Current year is moving around historical lows with nice space for profit
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Futures Spread Strategy For October, 2015 - Buy SMZ15-SMF16

This futures spread combines several conditions to create good trading opportunity.

  • 100% Win in last 20 years
  • All seasonal patterns up to 30 years have similar movement and correlation
  • Possible to entry at support and use a small stop-loss
  • Closer legs with expected lower volatility
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Commodity Futures Spread Strategy for May, 2014 - Buy CZ14-CU14

This futures spread combines several conditions to create good trading opportunity.

  • 100% Win in last 15 years
  • High seasonal patterns correlation
  • Possible to entry at support and use a small stop-loss
  • Historical lows - Current year is moving around historical lows with nice space for profit
  • Long seasonal window - A lot of time for seasonality to kick in. Possibility to take profit earlier
  • Very low margin requirements
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Commodity Futures Spread Strategy for April, 2014 - Buy SMZ14-SMH15

This futures spread combines several conditions to create good trading opportunity.

  • 100% Win in last 15 years
  • Seasonal patterns correlation - All patterns up to 15 years have similar movement and correlation
  • Spread moves in a narrow range
  • Possible to entry at support and use a small stop-loss
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Commodity Futures Spread Strategy for July, 2013 - Buy SMF14-SMV13

This spread combines several conditions to create good trading opportunity:

  • 93% Win in last 15 years
  • Nice support level to place stop loss
  • High long (15 years) and short (5 years) pattern correlation
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Commodity Futures Spread Strategy for May, 2013 - Buy CZ13-CU13

This spread combines several conditions to create good trading opportunity:

  • 100% Win in last 15 years (there were only 2 losses in last 30 years)
  • Nice support level to place stop loss
  • Historical lows - Current year is moving around historical lows with nice space for profit
  • Long seasonal window - A lot of time for seasonality to kick in. Possibility to take profit earlier
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