Michael Gross

• Harvesting profits from corn fundamentals

  By Michael Gross  |  October 21, 2013

  Options strategies can be used to take advantage of fundamentally and seasonally driven price changes in the agricultural markets.

• Unleaded gas: Time to floor it

  By James Cordier, Michael Gross  |  February 1, 2012

  Unleaded gasoline can be one of the most seasonal commodities on the board

• Tech Talk: Cocoa technicals

  By James Cordier, Michael Gross  |  December 1, 2011

  Calling the longer term direction of a market

• Weather affects premium more than price

  By James Cordier, Michael Gross  |  November 1, 2011

  It was only this spring that coffee prices touched a 14-year high

• Double your option premium, balance your risk

  By James Cordier, Michael Gross  |  October 1, 2011

  Writing an options strangle can reduce the stress of having a naked position

• USDA Report Rewards Call Sellers in Corn — Time to Sell Puts Approaching

  By James Cordier, Michael Gross  |  August 1, 2011

  The USDA shook up the corn market as the quarterly stocks report for the second quarter 2001 showed more corn in storage than even the bears expected

• Rain delayed corn planting is a silver lining for call sellers

  By James Cordier, Michael Gross  |  July 1, 2011

  Most of us have seen in the media the wave after wave of storm cells pummeling the Midwest

• Exploiting wheat’s weak sister status

  By James Cordier, Michael Gross  |  June 1, 2011

  A falling dollar, food inflation and biofuel production have pushed corn and soybean prices higher and are expected to continue through the growing season

• Corn demand high with no relief in sight

  By James Cordier, Michael Gross  |  May 1, 2011

  "Food inflation" has become a hot topic among the pundits

• Rising demand creates floor for crude oil

  By James Cordier, Michael Gross  |  March 1, 2011

  Unlike gold or some of the "exotics", crude oil prices remained relatively stable throughout the dollar-related volatility of 2010