Investment is a game of money of securing future money by taking a risk today. Trading therefore comes with a list of rules to play by. Commodity trading in particular offers tremendous potential for becoming a completely different asset class.
However, before investing in any kind of commodity, you must do an in depth research and also ask your broker as many questions as possible. Through this category archive we provide you as much information and valuable insights into the world of commodity trading.
We at Cannon Trading are here to help you with your commodity trading needs. You as a trader should select your commodity trading advisor only after performing a due diligence on him/her. We in fact do that for you. This way, you get only the best advice to help you with your commodity trading.
We’ve got the information that you might need at every step of commodity trading, and you’ll find it all right here in the commodity trading section of our blog. Read up, and read on to get equipped!
Heads up everyone, a bit of a different Good Friday schedule than years past.
Good Friday was the one holiday all commodity brokers loved as almost all markets were completely closed. With NFP out this Friday, the CME will have a few markets open to allow for risk management. Equities will remain open until 8:15 AM central Friday. Currencies & rates until 10:15 AM central.
Please see full list below. Happy Easter/ Passover to all.
Below are the contracts which are entering First Notice or Last Trading Day for the upcoming month. Be advised, for contracts that are deliverable, it is requested that all LONG positions be exited two days prior to First Notice and ALL positions be exited the day prior to Last Trading Day.
Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.
This is not a solicitation of any order to buy or sell, but a current market view provided by Cannon Trading Inc. Any statement of facts here in contained are derived from sources believed to be reliable, but are not guaranteed as to accuracy, nor they purport to be complete. No responsibility is assumed with respect to any such statement or with respect to any expression of opinion herein contained. Readers are urged to exercise their own judgement in trading.
In this session, we’ll take a look at QT Market Center, a leading trading platform used by hedgers and professional traders world wide.
When: Tomorrow ( Thursday Apr. 6th) at 2 PM Central Time
Mark Bucaro, an ex floor trader will share some of the features and tools QT offers and how you can possibly use it to help your trading.
In this webinar you will learn and see live examples:
• Proprietary Price Counts Price Forecasting Tool
• Realtime Agricultural/Livestock/Ethanol-Energy News, Weather, Audio Charts, & Quotes and more all from one platform – Desktop, Tablet, Smartphone Accessible
• Daily Chart of the Day Subscription with Price Counts Price Forecasting Levels Included
• Profitability Cost Calculator – Input your costs and get your profitability results in seconds
• Web based Platform Access, Desktop (Smartphone & Tablet Access included Free) from virtually anywhere there is an internet connection
• Cost Effective, Reliable and Fast
• Reduced Live and Snapshot Quotes Fee Cost Options Available
• Realtime Live Streaming Agricultural & World Weather Audio Market Commentary Updates (accessible from Desktop, Tablet & Smartphone when out in the field)
• Access Current and 11+ years of Archived USDA Reports,
Heads up everyone, a bit of a different Good Friday schedule than years past.
Good Friday was the one holiday all commodity brokers loved as almost all markets were completely closed. With NFP out this Friday, the CME will have a few markets open to allow for risk management. Equities will remain open until 8:15 AM central Friday. Currencies & rates until 10:15 AM central.
Please see full list below. Happy Easter/ Passover to all.
Good Friday Hours for this Friday Below:
Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.
This is not a solicitation of any order to buy or sell, but a current market view provided by Cannon Trading Inc. Any statement of facts here in contained are derived from sources believed to be reliable, but are not guaranteed as to accuracy, nor they purport to be complete. No responsibility is assumed with respect to any such statement or with respect to any expression of opinion herein contained. Readers are urged to exercise their own judgement in trading.
ADP early tomorrow, followed by ISM to provide direction on a SHORT TRADING week ahead.
Heads up everyone, a bit of a different Good Friday schedule than years past.
Good Friday was the one holiday all commodity brokers loved as almost all markets were completely closed. With NFP out this Friday, the CME will have a few markets open to allow for risk management. Equities will remain open until 8:15 AM central Friday. Currencies & rates until 10:15 AM central.
Please see full list below. Happy Easter/ Passover to all.
Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.
This is not a solicitation of any order to buy or sell, but a current market view provided by Cannon Trading Inc. Any statement of facts here in contained are derived from sources believed to be reliable, but are not guaranteed as to accuracy, nor they purport to be complete. No responsibility is assumed with respect to any such statement or with respect to any expression of opinion herein contained. Readers are urged to exercise their own judgement in trading.
Important Notices – Good Friday Schedule and NFP Report
Heads up traders. This coming Friday, April 7th will be somewhat of an irregularity. It is a trading holiday (Good Friday) and simultaneously the first Friday of the month, when the Labor Department will release its monthly Non-farm payrolls report.
While the major CME Group futures markets with 4:00 P.M. Central Time closings will finish the week’s trading at that regular time on Thursday, June 5th, at the regular 6:00 P.M. start of trading, energy, grains and metals will remain closed. Only interest rate, equities, currencies and cryptocurrencies will open and will close early Friday morning as follows:
Interest rate: 10:15 A.M. Central Time
Equities: 8:15 A.M.
Currencies: 10:15 A.M.
Cryptocurrencies: 10:15 A.M.
This will give some of the most actively traded and report-sensitive instruments only a limited amount of time to react to what is widely considered to be one of the most important and influential measures of the U.S. economy – on a day that will likely see reduced volume.
QT Market Center – Trading Terminal for Professional Traders & Hedgers (Grain, Livestock, Energies, Metals and More!)
When: Thursday April 6th at 2 PM Central Time
Mark Bucaro, an ex floor trader will share some of the features and tools QT offers and how you can possibly use it to help your TRADING and HEDGING.
In this webinar you will learn and see live examples:
• Pre-Opening Comments for Financials, Metals, Ags, and Softs.
• Cycle Timing Commentary for Grains
• David Hightower daily market analysis
• Market Calendar
• Web based Platform Access, Desktop (Smartphone & Tablet Access included Free) from virtually any computer anywhere there is an internet connection
• Easy to use Point and Click with Multi Screen Capability
• Profitability Cost Calculator – Input your costs and get your profitability results in seconds
• Realtime Live Streaming Agricultural & World Weather Audio Market Commentary Updates (accessible from Desktop, Tablet & Smartphone when out in the field)
• Access Current and 11+ years of Archived USDA Reports,
• Realtime Agricultural/Livestock/Ethanol-Energy News, Weather, Audio Charts, & Quotes and more all from one platform – Desktop, Tablet, Smartphone Accessible
• Daily Chart of the Day Subscription with Price Counts Price Forecasting Levels Included
• Proprietary Price Counts Price Forecasting Tool
• Chart Overlays
• Seasonal Charts
• Grain Bids Directory with approximately 16,000 bids
Hot market of the week is provided by QT Market Center, A swiss army knife charting package that’s not just for Hedgers, Cooperatives and Farmers alike but also for Spread traders, Swing traders and shorter time frame application for intraday traders with a unique proprietary indicator that can be applied to your specific trading needs.
May silver has rallied back for a challenge of the winter highs. At this point breakout into new sustained highs would project a run to the third PriceCount objective of the 26.13 area.
PriceCounts – Not about where we’ve been , but where we might be going next!
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The PriceCount study is a tool that can help to project the distance of a move in price. The counts are not intended to be an ‘exact’ science but rather offer a target area for the four objectives which are based off the first leg of a move with each subsequent count having a smaller percentage of being achieved. It is normal for the chart to react by correcting or consolidating at an objective and then either resuming its move or reversing trend. Best utilized in conjunction with other technical tools, PriceCounts offer one more way to analyze charts and help to manage your positions and risk. Learn more at www.qtchartoftheday.com
Trading in futures, options, securities, derivatives or OTC products entails significant risks which must be understood prior to trading and may not be appropriate for all investors. Past performance of actual trades or strategies is not necessarily indicative of future results.
With algorithmic trading systems becoming more prevalent in portfolio diversification, the following system has been selected as the broker’s choice for this month.
The performance shown above is hypothetical in that the chart represents returns in a model account. The model account rises or falls by the average single contract profit and loss achieved by clients trading actual money pursuant to the listed system’s trading signals on the appropriate dates (client fills), or if no actual client profit or loss available – by the hypothetical single contract profit and loss of trades generated by the system’s trading signals on that day in real time (real‐time) less slippage, or if no real time profit or loss available – by the hypothetical single contract profit and loss of trades generated by running the system logic backwards on back adjusted data. Please read full disclaimer HERE.
Questions about the markets? trading? platforms? technology? trading systems? Get answers with a complimentary, confidential consultation with a Cannon Trading Company series 3 broker.
This is not a solicitation of any order to buy or sell, but a current market view provided by Cannon Trading Inc. Any statement of facts herein contained are derived from sources believed to be reliable but are not guaranteed as to accuracy, nor they purport to be complete. No responsibility is assumed with respect to any such statement or with respect to any expression of opinion herein contained. Readers are urged to exercise their own judgment in trading
For the USDA prospective plantings report on Friday, the average trade expectation for US soybean plantings is
88.3 million acres, with a range of expectations from 87.4 to 89.6 million. This would be up from 87.5 million last
year. The USDA Outlook Forum had planted area at 87.5 million acres as well.
For the Quarterly Grain Stocks report, US March 1 soybean stocks are expected to come in around 1.728 billion bushels (range 1.600-1.910 billion) versus 1.932 billion last year. Brazil may need to supply up to half of the soybeans that Argentina will import after the worst drought in 100 years devastated its fields and cut 2023 output nearly in half.
Argentina may need to import up to 10 million tonnes of soybeans. For the weekly export sales report, traders see soybean sales near 100,000-600,000 tonnes for old crop and another 50,000-300,000 tonnes for new crop. Meal sales are expected near 75,000-250,000 tonnes and oil sales are expected near zero-20,000 tonnes.
TODAY’S MARKET IDEAS:
Look for support in November Soybeans at 1291 3/4, with 1316 and then 1337 1/2 as key resistance. July Soybean support is at 1443, with 1464 3/4 as next key resistance. July Soybean Meal support is at 447.30, with 459.10 and 465.70 as resistance.
For the USDA planted acreage report on Friday, traders see US corn plantings near 90.9 million acres, 87.7-92.1 range, as compared with 91 million acres from the USDA Outlook forum and from 88.6 million last year. We lean to the higher end of estimates.
Traders see March 1 corn stocks at 7.474 billion bushels which would be the lowest since 2014. The range of estimates is 7.240-7.830, as compared with 7.758 billion last year. For the weekly export sales report, traders see corn sales near 600,000-1.8 million tonnes for old crop and 50,000-300,000 tonnes for new crop.
For the USDA planted acreage report on Friday, traders see all wheat planted area at 48.9 million acres, 45.7-50.0 range, as compared with 49.5 million acres from the USDA Outlook Forum. Spring wheat planted area is expected near 10.9 million acres, 9.8-12.0 range, as compared with 10.8 million acres last year. Winter wheat plantings are expected near 36.3 million acres from 33.3 million in 2022. Traders see wheat stocks as of March 1 at 929 million bushels, 875-1.020 billion range, as compared with stocks last March at 1.029 billion bushels last year. For the weekly export sales report, traders see wheat sales near 125,000-300,000 tons for old crop and 0-150,000 tons for new crop.
Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.
This is not a solicitation of any order to buy or sell, but a current market view provided by Cannon Trading Inc. Any statement of facts here in contained are derived from sources believed to be reliable, but are not guaranteed as to accuracy, nor they purport to be complete. No responsibility is assumed with respect to any such statement or with respect to any expression of opinion herein contained. Readers are urged to exercise their own judgement in trading.
This Friday is First Notice Day for April gold. Holding long positions in this futures contract into Friday subjects you to receiving a delivery notice from the exchange for 100 ounces of gold. You would then be required to have the full notional value of each 100-ounce futures contract on deposit in your account.
This upcoming event may not apply to any positions in your account this time, but if you ever take a long position in a futures contract where the method of settlement for that contract is the exchange of the actual physical asset, for example 100 ounces of gold, 5,000 bushels of oats, 37,500 pound of Arabica coffee, then you need to be mindful of those dates on the calendar that relate to the futures contracts you trade – Like First Notice Day. It can be a costly mistake even if you overlook an important date and find yourself in need of having to change your mind. After being informed that your account has received a delivery notice and you move to do an about-face – called retendering in futures parlance – the exchange may present you with a fine for your disregard of the calendar. Be careful.
For the grain markets and impact on livestock prices, Friday will mark the once a year prospective plantings report.
For our Grain Traders and Bona Fide Hedgers
This piece of information from one of our partners,
QTMarketCenter ( sign up for a free trial and enjoy plathora of information!)
Offers expectations for Friday’s big and all important USDA Prospective Plantings report and USDA Quarterly Grain Stocks —
Ahead of this week’s USDA quarterly grain stocks report, analysts are forecasting as of March 1, US Soybean stockpiles at 1.73 bln bu, that compares with the 1.93 bln bu on March 1, 2022
— Ahead of this week’s USDA quarterly grain stocks report, analysts are forecasting as of March 1, US Corn stockpiles at 7.47 bln bu, that compares with the 7.76 bln bu on March 1, 2022
— Grain traders and analysts are forecasting next week’s USDA prospective planting report to show US Soybean acres at 88.3 mln, that compares with last season’s 87.5 mln acres. The data will be released Friday, March 31 around 11:00 am CT.
— Grain traders and analysts are forecasting next week’s USDA prospective planting report to show US Corn acres at 90.9 mln, that compares with last season’s 88.6 mln acres. The data will be released Friday, March 31 around 11:00 am CT.
Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.
This is not a solicitation of any order to buy or sell, but a current market view provided by Cannon Trading Inc. Any statement of facts here in contained are derived from sources believed to be reliable, but are not guaranteed as to accuracy, nor they purport to be complete. No responsibility is assumed with respect to any such statement or with respect to any expression of opinion herein contained. Readers are urged to exercise their own judgement in trading.
QT Market Center – Trading Terminal for Professional Traders & Hedgers (Grain, Livestock, Energies, Metals and More!)
Thu, Apr 6, 2023 12:01 PM – 1:00 PM PDT
In this session, we’ll take a look at QT Market Center, a leading trading platform used by hedgers and professional traders world wide.
Mark Bucaro, an ex floor trader will share some of the features and tools QT offers and how you can possibly use it to help your TRADING and HEDGING.
• Pre-Opening Comments for Financials, Metals, Ags, and Softs.
• Cycle Timing Commentary for Grains
• David Hightower daily market analysis
• Market Calendar
• Web based Platform Access, Desktop (Smartphone & Tablet Access included Free) from virtually any computer anywhere there is an internet connection
• Easy to use Point and Click with Multi Screen Capability
• Profitability Cost Calculator – Input your costs and get your profitability results in seconds
• Realtime Live Streaming Agricultural & World Weather Audio Market Commentary Updates (accessible from Desktop, Tablet & Smartphone when out in the field)
• Access Current and 11+ years of Archived USDA Reports,
• Realtime Agricultural/Livestock/Ethanol-Energy News, Weather, Audio Charts, & Quotes and more all from one platform – Desktop, Tablet, Smartphone Accessible
• Daily Chart of the Day Subscription with Price Counts Price Forecasting Levels Included
• Proprietary Price Counts Price Forecasting Tool
• Chart Overlays
• Seasonal Charts
• Grain Bids Directory with approximately 16,000 bids
Risk: Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time.
Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.
This is not a solicitation of any order to buy or sell, but a current market view provided by Cannon Trading Inc. Any statement of facts here in contained are derived from sources believed to be reliable, but are not guaranteed as to accuracy, nor they purport to be complete. No responsibility is assumed with respect to any such statement or with respect to any expression of opinion herein contained. Readers are urged to exercise their own judgement in trading.
There are few reports with market-moving potential in the March 27 week for the financials, However, for the grain markets and impact on livestock prices, Friday will mark the once a year prospective plantings report.
The third and final estimate of GDP for the fourth quarter 2022 will be reported at 7:30 CDT on Thursday. With the first quarter 2023 already nearing its end, there is far more interest in economic conditions in the January-March period.
Meanwhile, Fed policymakers will be back in public after the end of the communications blackout period from the March 21-22 FOMC meeting. No comments will be more closely attended to than Vice Chair of Supervision Michael Barr’s appearance before the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday at 9:00 CDT. Aside from the committee’s posturing, Barr’s written testimony and responses to questioning will be a warning to other banks to clean up their risk management and any overreliance on narrow business sectors.
For our Grain Traders and Bona Fide Hedgers
This piece of information from one of our partners,
Offers expectations for Friday’s big and all important USDA Prospective Plantings report and USDA Quarterly Grain Stocks —
Ahead of this week’s USDA quarterly grain stocks report, analysts are forecasting as of March 1, US Soybean stockpiles at 1.73 bln bu, that compares with the 1.93 bln bu on March 1, 2022
— Ahead of this week’s USDA quarterly grain stocks report, analysts are forecasting as of March 1, US Corn stockpiles at 7.47 bln bu, that compares with the 7.76 bln bu on March 1, 2022
— Grain traders and analysts are forecasting next week’s USDA prospective planting report to show US Soybean acres at 88.3 mln, that compares with last season’s 87.5 mln acres. The data will be released Friday, March 31 around 11:00 am CT.
— Grain traders and analysts are forecasting next week’s USDA prospective planting report to show US Corn acres at 90.9 mln, that compares with last season’s 88.6 mln acres. The data will be released Friday, March 31 around 11:00 am CT.
Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.
This is not a solicitation of any order to buy or sell, but a current market view provided by Cannon Trading Inc. Any statement of facts here in contained are derived from sources believed to be reliable, but are not guaranteed as to accuracy, nor they purport to be complete. No responsibility is assumed with respect to any such statement or with respect to any expression of opinion herein contained. Readers are urged to exercise their own judgement in trading.
Trading Resource of the Week – Live Breaking News Audio Service
Hot Market of the Week – July/November Beans Spread
Broker’s Trading System of the Week
Trading Levels for Next Week
Trading Reports for Next Week
Important Notices – WTI Futures Trading Challenge
WTI Futures Trading Challenge
March 26-31, 2023
The global benchmark for crude oil is fabulous at 40
Take part in our special Trading Challenge to honor the 40th anniversary of WTI Crude Oil futures. Practice trading in a simulated environment with the most liquid crude oil futures benchmark in the world. Use our established, time-tested market with around-the-clock liquidity and global participation as you get to know our suite of WTI contracts in a risk-free environment that mimics live markets.
Learn why WTI has amassed worldwide interest
Have a gas as you explore WTI futures and simulate trading with the world’s most liquid oil contract. Receive daily education lessons from CME Group’s Owain Johnson, Managing Director of Research and Product Development. Gain valuable experience in a simulated environment while competing for a top spot.
Prizes for eligible participants
The top three finishers for this challenge will earn cash prizes. The top 40 finishers will also receive a complimentary copy of the recent book written by Owain Johnson, titled 40 Classic Crude Oil Trades.
This competition is open to residents in the United States (US), Canada (CA) excluding Quebec, *Brazil (BR), United Kingdom (UK), Germany (DE), Netherlands (NL), Switzerland (CH), Republic of Korea (KR), Taiwan (TW), and Japan (JP).
*Residents of Brazil must have a bank account in the United States to be eligible to receive a prize.
Hot market of the week is provided by QT Market Center, A swiss army knife charting package that’s not just for Hedgers, Cooperatives and Farmers alike but also for Spread traders, Swing traders and shorter time frame application for intraday traders with a unique proprietary indicator that can be applied to your specific trading needs.
July/Nov Beans Spread: The July November been spread has resumed its rally in a new high. If sustained this move would project a run to the third PriceCount objective to the $1.87 area
PriceCounts – Not about where we’ve been , but where we might be going next!
The PriceCount study is a tool that can help to project the distance of a move in price. The counts are not intended to be an ‘exact’ science but rather offer a target area for the four objectives which are based off the first leg of a move with each subsequent count having a smaller percentage of being achieved. It is normal for the chart to react by correcting or consolidating at an objective and then either resuming its move or reversing trend. Best utilized in conjunction with other technical tools, PriceCounts offer one more way to analyze charts and help to manage your positions and risk. Learn more at www.qtchartoftheday.com
Trading in futures, options, securities, derivatives or OTC products entails significant risks which must be understood prior to trading and may not be appropriate for all investors. Past performance of actual trades or strategies is not necessarily indicative of future results.
With algorithmic trading systems becoming more prevalent in portfolio diversification, the following system has been selected as the broker’s choice for this month.
The performance shown above is hypothetical in that the chart represents returns in a model account. The model account rises or falls by the average single contract profit and loss achieved by clients trading actual money pursuant to the listed system’s trading signals on the appropriate dates (client fills), or if no actual client profit or loss available – by the hypothetical single contract profit and loss of trades generated by the system’s trading signals on that day in real time (real‐time) less slippage, or if no real time profit or loss available – by the hypothetical single contract profit and loss of trades generated by running the system logic backwards on back adjusted data. Please read full disclaimer HERE.
Questions about the markets? trading? platforms? technology? trading systems? Get answers with a complimentary, confidential consultation with a Cannon Trading Company series 3 broker.
This is not a solicitation of any order to buy or sell, but a current market view provided by Cannon Trading Inc. Any statement of facts herein contained are derived from sources believed to be reliable but are not guaranteed as to accuracy, nor they purport to be complete. No responsibility is assumed with respect to any such statement or with respect to any expression of opinion herein contained. Readers are urged to exercise their own judgment in trading
Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.
This is not a solicitation of any order to buy or sell, but a current market view provided by Cannon Trading Inc. Any statement of facts here in contained are derived from sources believed to be reliable, but are not guaranteed as to accuracy, nor they purport to be complete. No responsibility is assumed with respect to any such statement or with respect to any expression of opinion herein contained. Readers are urged to exercise their own judgement in trading.
RISK DISCLOSURE: Past results are not necessarily indicative of future results. The risk of loss in futures trading can be substantial, carefully consider the inherent risks of such an investment in light of your financial condition.
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