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Old 03-18-2014, 07:38 AM   #3
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How are commodity futures contracts listed?
How are they listed? you mean by months? Like Corn is March (H), May (K), July (N), September (U) & December (Z)
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Many of the grain companies and trading houses including the bulk of the line companies are privately owned… trading on a spot basis
Lots of public grain companies ADM, MGPI, BG, CHSCP, INGR.....
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The long and short positions of the physicals are not revealed, so the exchanges only list and offer what is bought and sold from public companies?

Sorry if this is a really basic or silly question, I don’t have any experience trading futures
Not sure what you mean by this, but there is the Commitment of Traders that comes out every Friday tells you the longs and shorts of funds vs grain companies vs the public
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