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Understanding Futures Spreads PLUS: Sept – Dec Corn Spread, Pre-Market Briefing, CannonEdge Snapshot, Levels, Reports; Your 6 Important Can’t-Miss Need-To-Knows for Trading Futures on July 9th, 2026

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At A Glance Levels

Instrument S2 S1 Pivot R1 R2

Gold (GC)

— Aug (#GC)

 3976.23 4032.17 4088.43 4144.37 4200.63

Silver (SI)

— Sept. (#SI)

 55.43 57.10 59.28 60.95 63.13

Crude Oil (CL)

— Aug (#CL)

 69.68 71.94 74.01 76.27 78.34

 Sept. Bonds (ZB)

— Sept. (#ZB)

 110 15/32 110  26/32 111  5/32 111 16/32 111 27/32

Understanding Futures Spreads

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Course Overview

This course covers the definition of futures spread trades and why you may want to add spreads to your trading strategy. We will discuss the benefits of spread trading which include potential less risk and cost efficiencies. This course will introduce the different types of spreads used with various products.

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Sept – Dec Corn Spread

The Sept – Dec Corn Spread has broken down into a new low. If the chart can sustain further weakness, the third downside PriceCount projects a possible slide to the -25 area.
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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.

Cannon Edge — Your Daily Futures Snapshot for July 9th
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Cannon Edge is our new daily feature designed to give traders a fast, actionable overview of key futures markets. Each post delivers:

·    Current price and daily % change

·    30‑day and 52‑week highs/lows

·    PROPRIETARY Short‑term and long‑term trend signals

·    Coverage across equity indices, metals, energies, currencies, and ags

 

Whether you’re scanning for breakout setups, trend reversals, or just staying informed — Cannon Edge puts the data in your hands before the open.

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Daily Levels for July 9th, 2026
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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.
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Futures Trading Levels for June 30th, 2021

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Cannon Futures Daily Blog

Dear Traders,

Starting June 28, 2021, CME Group has removed the trading halt between 3:15 and 3:30 p.m. CT on CME Globex for Equity Index products.
This enhancement will allow market participants to access liquidity continuously throughout the trading day and manage event risk that occurs during the trading session with greater ease.
Tomorrow is also the last trading day of the month!
Last trading days and first trading days of the months will at times have unique characteristics. Possible larger moves, sharper turns, higher volume.
Large traders/ funds will try to “close the books for the month”, book profits or losses etc.
Do you homework, go over notes from your journal, study the charts from prior last/ first trading days and be prepared.

 

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Futures Trading Levels

for June 30th

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Economic Reports, source: 

 www.BetterTrader.co

 

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Good 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.

Futures Trading Levels for June 29th, 2021

Posted on by Ilan

Cannon Futures Daily Blog

Dear Traders,

Starting today, June 28, 2021, CME Group has removed the trading halt between 3:15 and 3:30 p.m. CT on CME Globex for Equity Index products.
This enhancement will allow market participants to access liquidity continuously throughout the trading day and manage event risk that occurs during the trading session with greater ease.
Subject to regulatory review and effective June 28, 2021, CME and CBOT will eliminate the 3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Central Time (CT) trading halt on CME Globex which currently exists for certain Equity futures and options contracts.
The halt was initially implemented to account for transactions conducted via open outcry in the trading pits and is therefore no longer necessary.
June is almost over and just like that next week is 4th of July and the beginning of what we consider “summer trading”…
Summer trading USUALLY = less volume, narrower ranges but also larger moves on certain reports.
Below is a video I put together a few years ago on trading using overbought and oversold conditions – still very valid in m opinion.

 

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Futures Trading Levels

for June 29th

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Good 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.

Economic Reports, source: 

 www.BetterTrader.co

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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

Weekly Newsletter #1056 Trading Futures Spreads, Corn Futures Chart Review & Support and Resistance Levels for the Week Ahead

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Cannon Futures Weekly Newsletter Issue # 1056

Dear Traders,

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Trading 201: Trading Futures Spreads – Basic But Important Strategy

“A Basic And Important Strategy For Commodities Traders Using Spread Trading.”

By: Mark O’Brien, Cannon Trading Commodities Broker

Over my 20+ year career as a commodities broker, I have studied and traded a wide range of approaches to trading the futures markets.  From candlestick formations to the commodity channel index, from condors to turtle trading, there’s an enormous catalog of tools and methods available for traders to consider.

One method I have noticed is surprisingly underrepresented among retail traders is futures spread trading, where a single position in the market consists of the simultaneous purchase of one futures contract and sale of a related futures contract as a unit.  I call it surprising because some of the most invested players in futures trading – and arguably the most sophisticated – include large speculators and commercial firms who regularly employ spreads.  This includes traders in the markets who often actually buy and sell the physical commodities we trade.  Farmers, ranchers and other food growers along with food producers, petroleum companies who either drill for oil or natural gas or refine these products – or both, financial institutions with enormous holdings in treasuries, equities or currencies, mining interests and their buyers – all these areas of production and distribution employ spreads from time to time as an important aspect of their businesses.  Indeed, spread trading is a fundamental and essential part of the commodities futures markets.

At the same time, despite the remarkable increase in interest and in the growth in the volume of the futures markets over the years, spread trading is typically dismissed by most other traders in search of a trading strategy.  With so much attention focused on other approaches related to straightforward directional trading (and within that category, day-trading) it’s not difficult to see how spread trading can be overlooked.

To read the remaining article on Trading Futures Spreads by Mark O’brien, please click here.

Market Pick Review for the Week:

Sept. 2021 Corn vs. May 2022 Corn

Sept. 2021 Corn vs. May 2022 Corn Futures Chart

To access a free trial to the ALGOS shown in the chart along with other tools? (Arrows possible buy/sell, diamonds = possible exit/ tighten stops) visit and sign up for a free trial for 21 days with real-time data.
Good 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.

 

Futures Trading Levels

6-28-2021

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Weekly Levels

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Reports, First Notice (FN), Last trading (LT) Days for the Week:

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Date Reports/Expiration Notice Dates

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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

What Exactly Are Futures Spreads

Posted on by Ilan

Corn is one of nature’s greatest creations. You can make all sorts of delicious foods from the vegetable. It feeds many different types of animals. It is the base to many different popular types of liquor. Corn also can be an alternative fuel source. Not only are the corn’s uses wondrous it is also a very durable plant. It can take almost any type of weather patterns and still grow. Corn is also popular amongst investors, most notably commodity traders. Although a very good sturdy plant, investing in corn is a risky investment. Actually commodity investing is a risky strategy, but rewarding if you can invest the right way.

To invest in a commodity you have to minimize your risk. Commodities traders will use a strategy known as a futures spread. Future spreads lower the amount of risk because the trader is hedging two commodities contracts, the result is the spread between the prices of the two contracts.

The several types of futures spreads traders can take advantage of.

Calendar Spreads

Calendar spreads are also known as Intramarket spreads. The practice lets the trader take on a short contract and a long contract, both based on specific months of the year. An example would be that the trader buys a contract for soybeans in May, and sells another contract for soybeans in November. To get your results you would simply subtract the November price of soybeans from the May price, and then you get your spread.

Intermarket Spreads

Intermarket spreading is the practice of buying a short contract of one commodity and buying the long contract of a different commodity. An example of an intermarket spread; you purchase a short contract of corn and at the same time purchase a long contract of wheat. The difference in the prices of the two will give you the spread.

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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.