Articles by Matt Malkus

  • Trading Futures Spreads – Part 2 (”Check Your Premises”) - August 6th, 2008

    Last time, we touched on the basics of commodity spreads and went over the basic example of soybeans (S) and soybean meal (SM), or the “crush spread.” We noted that by tracking their ratio (S/SM), we could identify times when the relationship between these two contracts is out of alignment with the historical relationship, and [...]

  • Trading Futures Spreads – Part 1 - August 3rd, 2008

    [Editor's Note: Liberty Maven welcomes Matt Malkus to The Free Investor contributor team. We look forward to learning more about investing in general and "liberty style" investing in particular from Matt.]
    Note: This will be part one in a continuing series of articles related to commodity spreads, offering advantages and disadvantages, potential mistakes, and detailed examples.

    The [...]