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AM Outlook - Corrective Phase in Offing

GOOD MORNING, Prices are mixed coming into today, with profit-taking in oilshare and grains firmer.  The funds remain long in soyoil, with the percent of total open interest now stands at 24.9%.  Typically, when funds hold over 20% of total open interest, it implies that there could be (or should be) a corrective phase on the horizon.  Funds are for the most part even in beans/meal to slightly short, but again, anything under 50K contracts is for all intents and purposes "even".  The surprise of the report was more in corn, where funds remain fairly committed to the short side, which perhaps explains the failure of March corn to be able to sustain trade over $3.90 March.  Funds covered the most in soybeans in fron...

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