ZM — Soybean Meal

Grains

Seasonality (Müller method)

Seasonal index per lookback window (5/10/15/20y), Jan 1 = 100. Hover for exact values on any date; drag to zoom, double-click to reset.

Methodology: for every pair of consecutive trading days, the per-calendar-day rate of change is computed and assigned to each calendar day the gap spans (e.g. a Friday→Monday move contributes to Saturday, Sunday and Monday alike). For each calendar day, the geometric mean of that rate across all years in the lookback window gives the average daily move; the seasonal index is the cumulative product of these averages walked forward from Jan 1 = 100. This is Philipp Müller's method, as published in the VTAD journal:
„Über die Konstruktion mathematisch korrekter Seasonal Charts und deren Analyse“ (VTAD, German)

Commercial COT Positioning

Report Date

2026-07-28

Commercial Net

-144,834

Net Change 1W

-9,831

Net Change 4W

-76,296

COT Index 26W

COT Index 156W

Last 10 years. Top: Commercial net position (long - short), CFTC Legacy Futures Only, historical + weekly combined. Bottom: Commercial COT Index, 26-week and 156-week stochastic (0-100); dotted lines mark the 20/80 bullish/bearish thresholds used on the main dashboard.

Forward Curve

Trade Date

2026-07-31

Structure

Contango

Trend

Weakening

Spread

+2.70

Spread %

+0.86%

Near-Carry

+1.41%

Far-Carry

+2.87%

Curvature

-1.51%

Spread % over Time: front/next continuous-contract spread as % of the front settlement. Positive = Contango (next contract pricier), negative = Backwardation. Near/Far-Carry/Curvature: informational only, not folded into the Core Score - see tooltips on the stats above. Latest Curve Shape: settlement price across every available contract depth for the most recent trade date - the full term structure, not just front/next.

Fundamental Overlay

WASDE Ending Stocks

neutral

Consensus: 0/1 bullish

Informational only - never folded into the Core Score above. As of 2026-08-04. „CONAB vs. WASDE“ is a credibility cross-check (delta %), not a directional read.

WASDE US Ending Stocks — Soybean Meal

USDA Export Sales (ESR) — Soybean Meal

Week Ending

2026-07-23

Net Sales (week)

+63,307

Outstanding Sales

3,252,762

Top Destination

Phil (22%)

Last 3 years. Weekly net export sales commitments, all destination countries combined (source: USDA FAS Export Sales Reporting, released Thursdays). Top Destination ranks countries by outstanding (booked but not yet shipped) sales for the current marketing year, excluding unattributed "Unknown" destination sales.