Trading Futures On The Road: One family's story of trading corn futures while traveling the country by motorhome

Studying the markets was a priority from the moment we crossed the California-Oregon border. Armed with our laptop and wireless air card, there wasn’t a commodity price chart in existence that Shawna and I weren’t right on top of. This became daily habit as we traveled in our motorhome through Oregon and into Washington. As we turned East across the top of the country two trades started coming into view. The grain market prices in Chicago and Winnipeg had been gently trending down for months but it was here that both the corn and canola markets began to drop off dramatically, reaching deep into thirty year historical lows. Our curiosity became insatiable as crop prices tumbled. Almost every day they would fall lower and we would say, “If it goes any lower the farmers will be giving it away!”