Commodity Position Management
Manage the Position. Not the Prediction.
The market trades your crop every day. Every bushel - in the field or in the bin - is a position you already hold.
Most traditional grain marketing begins with information, commentary, and market opinions intended to answer a familiar question: What will the market do next? Those inputs can be valuable, but they cannot remove uncertainty. Every marketing decision still depends on an expectation about a future no one can know.
Commodity Position Management starts with a different question: What position do I already have, and how do I want it to behave? Instead of relying on prediction, it manages that position with a plan - and keeps working while you farm.
CPM Disciplines
Protect Downside
Establish a known minimum price by utilizing sales, put options, and crop insurance.
Maintain Participation
Maintain participation in market rallies after production is sold by utilizing call options.
Get Paid for Time
Merchandise time value through basis, carry, and delivery decisions.
Manage the Position
Bring it together in a defined plan for how your position will be managed as the market changes.
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