BRIEFINGS

Read the report. Then read this.

WASDE day. COT release. Crop Progress Monday. The numbers are public — interpreting them is the trade. Each briefing takes one current data release and explains what it actually means, what historical setups looked similar, and what to watch next.

Two samples below. Founding members get one every Sunday plus same-day briefings on WASDE / Crop Production / COT release days.

CFTC COT CORN 2026-05-16 · 4 min read

What 95th-percentile CBOT corn positioning actually means right now

Managed money is sitting at the 95th percentile of its 3-year range in CBOT corn. Anyone who's traded grains for a while knows that's a number worth looking at — but the percentile alone tells you almost nothing. Here's what's actually loaded into that figure, why the de-leveraging that's already started matters more than the absolute level, and the three specific things to watch over the next two weeks.

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PRIMER WASDE Evergreen · 7 min read

How to read a WASDE balance sheet (and what the trade actually watches)

WASDE is the most important grains release of the month, and most retail traders read it wrong. They look at the headline numbers — production, ending stocks — and miss the three things that actually move the curve: surprise vs trade estimates, the carryover-stock ratio, and the cross-commodity demand reallocation. Once you know the structure, you'll read a WASDE the same way the desks do.

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