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... corn due for December delivery . Corn was selling at around $ 1.15 per bushel , just 134 cents from where it had reached its highest point for the year in April . For every penny corn moved higher from where we bought it , we would be ...
... corn due for December delivery . Corn was selling at around $ 1.15 per bushel , just 134 cents from where it had reached its highest point for the year in April . For every penny corn moved higher from where we bought it , we would be ...
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... corn . Our minds and eyes were focused only on a graph as we laboriously charted the fate of corn with each price change . We had bought our con- tracts after the chart had given us a clear signal that corn prices were destined to go ...
... corn . Our minds and eyes were focused only on a graph as we laboriously charted the fate of corn with each price change . We had bought our con- tracts after the chart had given us a clear signal that corn prices were destined to go ...
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... corn blight that sent the price of corn up from the government's support level of $ 1.05 a bushel to $ 1.40 . He still fiercely competes with the government forecasters . His office on the seventeenth floor of the Chicago Board of Trade ...
... corn blight that sent the price of corn up from the government's support level of $ 1.05 a bushel to $ 1.40 . He still fiercely competes with the government forecasters . His office on the seventeenth floor of the Chicago Board of Trade ...
Contents
10Prospecting for Players | 10 |
15Hyping the Future | 90 |
Part IIWhat Does It Take to Win? | 99 |
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