There are several factors that might be grain and soy market movers in the foreseeable future, but markets may also face more unanswered questions with the potential to move prices than in the recent past because of all the unknowns about the new Trump administration. In those “good old days” when futures trading was done by people standing on the steps of wooden pits located on exchange trading floors, the Christmas and New Year holidays would usually see a slowdown in that activity. Holiday absences would thin out the population of pit traders and that of commercials and speculators who created and sent the buy/sell/spread futures orders. Some of the usual attention paid to the markets was switched over to office parties as the holiday at...