Grain Trading: Basics of Fundamental and Technical Analysis - Softcover

Richard A Brock

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604618795 ISBN 13: 9781604618792

Publisher: Brock Associates, 2005

Synopsis

Richard Brock s grain marketing book presents information in bite-sized pieces that first-time and experienced marketers can comprehend. This 128-page book covers the why as well as the how to for. . . ...Developing a price forecast ...Maintaining balance sheets ...Using scatter diagrams ...Marking charts ...Spotting trends ...Using reliable technical tools as well as lesser-used technical tools ...Developing an eight-step marketing plan ...Evaluating your marketing performance ...Making marketing decisions based on sound logic rather than emotions and rumors. Other items that you ll value include: Richard Brock s collection of rules of thumb and marketing gems More than 40 charts and graphs ·An extensive glossary of marketing terms

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About the Author

Richard Brock has been in the agricultural marketing business for close to 30 years and is president of Brock Associates, a commodity marketing consulting firm that provides price forecasting and strategies for sales and purchasing programs to farmers, agri-business firms and the food industry. Brock Associates is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., with additional offices in Michigan and Minnesota and Washington D.C. While managing grain sales for farmers is the predominate part of Brock Associate s business, Brock also serves as a commodity marketing advisor and price forecaster to many of the nation s largest agribusiness firms, food companies and financial institutions. Brock authors The Brock Report, a 24 page weekly newsletter, and Brock Daily Electronic Comments, which is published three times daily, both detailing commodity pricing analysis and recommendations. His firm also publishes the four-page newsletter, Pork Profit Edge, for hog producers in conjunction with Elanco Animal Health Products, a division of Eli Lilly. Over the years Brock has written numerous articles for various magazines and newspapers. Currently, he writes a marketing column for the popular magazine Corn Soybean Digest and for Delta Farm Press, appears twice per week on the TV show AgDay and once per month on U.S. Farm Report. In the spring of 1995, Brock received the Distinguished Alumni of the Year award from Purdue University School of Agriculture, where he received his Bachelors of Science Degree in Agricultural Economics. Brock also has a Masters Degree from Cornell University. He is the author of three books and annually presents speeches throughout the country, addressing agricultural conventions on the topics of commodity price forecasting, agricultural policy, and long-term economic forecasting for the agricultural industry. Brock was born and raised on a grain and livestock farm in Indiana.

Review

The best fundamental and technical information assembled and used by Richard during his 30 years of experience of price forecasting is incorporated in a marketing and purchasing decision format that is easy to understand. Buy it! Read it! Apply the information contained within! --Dr. Bill Uhrig, Professor Emeritus Purdue University, Grain Marketing, Lafayette, Ind.

This book gives producers the nuts and bolts of commodity marketing in a straight-forward, easy to understand format. You get a great explanation of terms, concepts and scenarios. I recommend this book to agribusinesses that purchase grain and to all grain producers, whether they are new to grain marketing or have years of experience in the market. --Dennis Kelly, AgStar Financial Services, Senior Financial Services Executive, Mankato, Minn.

This is a wonderfully complete collection of common sense tools that you should use in your everyday marketing plans. Richard Brock has a tremendous talent for analyzing markets making decisions and understanding people's emotions. Keep this book on your desktop. It will help you sell and/or buy grain with increased success! --Dale E. Aupperle, AFM, ARA, president, Heartland Ag Group Ltd., Decatur, Ill.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brock Associates
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1604618795
• ISBN 13: 9781604618792
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120
• Editor: Teres Lambert