WPI offers the following analysis as a continuation of last week’s work examining mispricing opportunities in agricultural futures. Readers may recall that this work seeks to identify for the major agricultural commodities where along the forward curve current futures have the greatest error (mispricing) relative to predicted values and, simultaneously, the greatest odds for a large move in prices. WPI analyzes all the listed commodity futures contracts for the major markets and predicts prices forward for 24 weeks. We then identify the three contracts and timeframes which have the biggest mispricing opportunities and the largest potential for 10- and 20-percent price moves. The tables below identify not only the contracts where...
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