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That's the story, anyway. But we aren't buying it. Mill curtailment will put a crimp on supplies of lumber coming in from the Pacific Northwest, but the conditions which led to the curtailment, much lower lumber price today than ones from a year ago, remain. Demand is a factor and the caveat of possibly lower interest rates, as the U.S. Fed seems out of step with the rest of the world, and housing demand could push prices higher. But we think more likely recent strength in lumber prices are a correction in an overall downward trend that shows little sign of ending soon.

In an election year, the tariff disputes with Canada and elsewhere will moderate, and the Fed seems unlikely to us to reverse an early cyclic tightening knowing full well what that will do to inflation. Rumors of rate cuts and soaring housing demand may be overlooking market saturation, over-building in some areas, and those easy credit terms that got us into trouble the last time. Lumber's year-ago strength was based upon Canadian rail transporation problems coupled with wild fires and both of those situations have been largely resolved, at least for now.

How do we pick a commodity for review? Here are technical strength or weakness ratings for 07/12//2019 on the other major commodities not being currently being reviewed or traded on this site. One way to choose a commodity for review is to look at the previous activity and compare it to the present one, to see if there were any dramatic changes. Commodities currently under review on our list of about 18 on this site are not shown below. It's just a way of keeping track of what else is going on with other commodities.

The ratings are good only for date shown, and rapidly change each day, whereas we review the list only periodically. Once a commodity appears on our list of articles and is being currently traded, we consider its long-term direction has been established and trade consistently from that direction wtihout worrying about day-to-day changes. However, that procedure is not the one we use in swing trading stocks.

Updated once a week (usually on Saturdays) unless the preceding week had less than five trading days.

All Commodities Trades: 07/01/2019 - 07/20/2019

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