110.275 tons traded

Futures market turnover has never been so large

10 May 2017 - Niels van der Boom - 11 comments

Never before has the European Energy Exchange (EEX) converted so many potato futures contracts for April. The open positions account for a volume of more than 110.000 tons of potatoes. The April contract is the most important in the sales season for chips potatoes.

In total, this concerns 4.411 open positions on the potato futures market in Leipzig, which have been settled. Together these are good for 110.275 tons of potatoes. The highest volume ever for the April contract. According to the EEX, this underlines that the participants have a lot of confidence in the potato futures market.

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Niels van der Boom is a senior market specialist for arable crops at DCA Market Intelligence. He mainly makes analyses and market updates about the potato market. In columns he shares his sharp view on the arable sector and technology.

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11 comments
boer 10 May 2017
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MANIPULATED MARKET !
CS price 22,1, darnaa sharply up to 29 within 2 weeks!
farmers must stop with clic contracts
clic contracts are the biggest bullshit in the world
Narcos 10 May 2017
click clack; screwed!!
Clic.kwek and quack 10 May 2017
hello farmer, I may be stupid but can you explain this to me?
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hello 13 May 2017
7 cents times 40 tons is 2.800 per hectare. is indeed something different than 1 billion per factory
farmer 13 May 2017
Clic.kwek and quack wrote:
hello farmer, I may be stupid but can you explain this to me?

Too many sales contracts, without a buyer
onion set 13 May 2017
there is almost no turnover on the futures market in potatoes, have a look at the grain futures market converting more than 10.000 contracts per day is normal and then another 50 t0n each. potato futures market is dying.
speculator 13 May 2017
there is more wheat in europe than potato, and there is way too many different buyers in wheat market than potato market, and most importantly, there is much more optimism by wheat growers than potato grower
click. quack and quack 13 May 2017
Yes, but farmer, they are sold on the TM anyway and so there is a buyer or am I seeing that wrong?
Appie 13 May 2017
click. quack and quack wrote:
Yes, but farmer, they are sold on the TM anyway and so there is a buyer or am I seeing that wrong?


Clic contracts are different per customer, you can often start clicing in July, August until a certain agreed moment (often max 25 tons per ha)

There are also contracts with participation on the last CS of April.
That is why everything is done to get the CS of April as low as possible.
wheat 14 May 2017
plantui wrote:
there is almost no turnover on the futures market in potatoes, have a look at the grain futures market converting more than 10.000 contracts per day is normal and then another 50 t0n each. potato futures market is dying.


Knocks like a bus. The brokers claim that the potato futures market is working fine. In fact, there is now also a system of clicking for the grains. Great for trade and brokers, very bad for arable farmers.
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does not have to 14 May 2017
You don't have to click with a click contract. You can also settle on Cash Settlement, seems to be the best option at the moment. You should only click if it makes you happy. When the winter futures market was manipulated below the daily market, I stopped clicking, I'll see how it plays out at the time of delivery later in June.
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Free Agria 14 May 2017
need not wrote:
You don't have to click with a click contract. You can also settle on Cash Settlement, seems to be the best option at the moment. You should only click if it makes you happy. When the winter futures market was manipulated below the daily market, I stopped clicking, I'll see how it plays out at the time of delivery later in June.


That's why there was so much pressure on the futures market in April to buy all those click contracts nice and low against Cash Settlement. And I didn't know you could click until June. Explains why the futures market now has to go down again while the daily market is rising.
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