The Daily Service

The Cliff Harris/Randy Mann Weather and Trades continues to provide the same daily weather service that many clients been accustomed to for over 20 years. Cliff Harris has been forecasting weather for over 40 years.

We also have the highly acclaimed, "Cliff's Lucky 7 Picks" of potentially profitable weather commodity trades updated by Cliff as needed. This section highlights the major commodity markets that have been and will be affected by Ma Nature's wild ways in recent years.

Meteorologist Tom Loffman also provides his daily technical commodity trades. His weather and long-time trading systems will help provide the trader with the best information available.

Each business day, Monday through Friday, you will also receive our short, medium and long-term weather forecasts (up to 180 days and beyond) and specialized articles on our pattern of Wide Weather "EXTREMES", long-term climatological cycles to 2038, El Nino, La Nina, global warming and cooling, volcanic activity, sunspot cycles, potential coffee and orange juice freezes, plus corn, wheat, cotton and soybean drought forecasts.

One of our primary function is to help traders, farmers, and business interests plan ahead. We won't just tell our subscribers when we think a particular weather event will occur in a specific location, but we want to instruct our subscribers as to why a specific "type" of climatological condition should develop and why these particular changes will affect farmers, the commodity markets, and various business interests.

Testimonials

I’ve used Cliff’s service for timing on planting for over 15 years. I get a schedule for corn pollination, especially on dryland crops, and his advice has been ‘right on’ about 90% of the time. He keeps us posted on overseas crop conditions and weather. He saved my cousin and I from bankruptcy when corn was at the bottom. - Ed Petrowski, Kansas.

This service is great! He’s the only light in these dark clouds. I highly recommend this service as many ask me about his advice every day. I’ve made lots of money with Cliff. - Kevin Hansen, Illinois.

This service has a lot of value with weather forecasts and marketing recommendations for the U.S. and around the world. I’ve known Cliff for over 27 years and have used this service since it began on DTN. - Ray Gaesser, Vice President of the American Soybean Association, Iowa

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Daily Service Sample

CLIFF HARRIS/RANDY MANN WEATHER AND TRADES (MONDAY MAY 23, 2011)

BLAME OUR LONG-TERM "CYCLE OF WIDE EXTREMES" FOR ALL THE WILD WEATHER

The "Flood of 2011" along the Mighty Mississippi River and its many tributaries is being compared to the so-called 500-Year Midwest Flood' of the spring and early summer of 1993.

Flood-fighting, it seems, has become an annual pastime in the Mississippi Valley. Flood damage has been soaring in the past two decades.

In the past 18 years, Hannibal, Missouri, Mark Twain's hometown, has seen a 500-year and a 200-year flood. Since 2008, there have been damaging floods every spring in Hannibal as well as other places along the Mississippi like Memphis, Tennessee, Greenville, Mississippi and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Elsewhere around the world, in just the past 10 months or so, there have been many 200 to 500-year floods that have caused huge losses of life and property from Pakistan and Bangladesh to Australia and Brazil.

Just this past week, President Juan Manuel Santos of Columbia called the major flooding in his South American country, "Chinese water torture." He added, "this 500-year flood has become Columbia's worst natural disaster in recorded history."

After nearly a full year of almost endless rainfall, more than 1,000 people have been killed by floodwaters in Columbia. Cattle ranches and croplands have been destroyed by record flooding in 28 of the country's 32 provinces.

Water-logged Andean mountainsides have collapsed. More than 3 million people have lost their homes and livelihoods. It's "a disaster of Biblical proportions," according to President Santos.

What's causing all these floods at the same time other parts of the planet are suffering from parching, crop-destroying droughts?

For example, much of Russia and China have endured the worst drought conditions in centuries. Russia was forced this past year to cancel wheat exports due to widespread crop failures. Wheat prices (and food costs) literally "skyrocketed" on a global scale.

Now, parts of western and southwestern Europe are enduring parching drought, the worst such pattern in decades. As much as 30 percent of the 2011 E.U. wheat crop may have already been lost.

Our own hard red winter wheat regions of the southern Great Plains from Kansas southward to Texas have lost at least 30 percent of the 2011 crop due to weather conditions "drier than the infamous Dust Bowl Days."

It's amazing that less than 500 miles to the east along the Mississippi River, we're seeing some of the worst flooding in 500 years, "feast" or "famine" when it comes to precipitation, in close proximity.

For more than 20 years, I've frequently mentioned that we've entered a long-term climate cycle of WIDE WEATHER "EXTREMES," the strongest such cycle in more than 1,000 years, since the days of Leif Ericsson, the mighty Norse Chieftain, who with his powerful Vikings, actually farmed Greenland. Then came the "Little Ice Age" that eventually wiped them out.

Since the latest cycle of global warming peaked about a decade ago, we have begun a slow, but steady, period of cooling in the mid-latitudes, this despite some lingering warming in the Arctic regions.

It remains my firm climatological opinion that when widely-opposing air masses clash headlong, there are usually dire, often deadly, meteorological and climatological consequences. That's what led to our all-time record number of tornadoes in April and our record May flooding in the Mississippi Valley. Believe it!

CLIFF'S "LUCKY 7" FUTURES, OPTIONS & SPREADS TRADES: (MON., MAY 23, 2011)

FUTURES:

1. Buy "1" July 2011 Chicago wheat at $7.77-$7.81 on a sharp dip. Put stops at $7.63-$7.67. Risk: $700. Take profits at just under $8.30-a-bushel. Profit Potential: $2,500 plus. July Chicago wheat is still "oversold."

2. Buy "1" December 2011 corn at $6.51-$6.55 on a dip. Put stops at $6.37- $6.41. Risk: $700. Take profits just under $7.10-a-bushel. Profit Potential: $3,000 plus. Some bought December 2011 corn on Friday's early lows. Buy December 2012 corn near $5.75-a-bushel.

3. Buy "1" Nov 2011 feeder cattle at near $1.28-a-pound. Put stops at $1.25 or less-a-pound. Risk: $1,500. Take profits just under $1.35-a-pound. Profit Potential: $2,500 plus. Cattle are now a bit "oversold."

OPTIONS:

1. Buy "1" December 2011 $7.20 corn "call" option on a dip between 35 and 40 cents. Risk: About $1,500. Profit potential: $2,500 plus.

2. Buy "1" November 2011 $12.60 soybean "put" option between 25 and 30 cents. Risk: About $1,200 only. Profit potential: $3,500 plus.

SPREADS:

1. Buy July 2011 soybeans and sell November 2011 soybeans when the premium to July beans narrows to 15 cents-a-bushel or less. Risk: About $1,500. Profit potential: $3,000 plus. Many are already in this spread. Looking for 50 cents premium in July 2011 over November 2011 beans. We hit 35 cents plus on Friday.

2. Buy December 2011 corn and sell July 2011 corn when the premium to July exceeds $1.10-a-bushel. Risk: About $800. Profit potential: $2,000 plus. We exceeded 95 cents on this spread on Thursday.

ANY QUESTIONS: Call me at (208)664-1109. My consultation fee remains at a low $25.00. Cliff Harris.

DISCLAIMER: You must be aware of the risks and be willing to accept them in order to invest in one or more commodity trades. Don't trade with money that you can't afford to lose. This is neither a solicitation nor an offer to buy or sell futures and options. Although every attempt has been made to assure accuracy, Tom Loffman, Cliff Harris, Randy Mann and persons relating to the operation of Harris-Mann Climatology assume no responsibilities for errors, omissions or any financial gains or losses associated with any trading suggestions or advice.

TOM LOFFMAN'S NEAR-TERM COMMODITY TRADES (MONDAY, MAY 23, 2011)

NOTE: When a Current Position is "Flat," then the trading system is not in that particular position and waiting for the nearby Entry Price. Once the Entry Price is hit, the trading system will generate a Protective Stop. If one chooses to enter the market at the Entry Price, it would be advisable to add a protective stop based on the amount of money one wishes to risk. Nearby contracts will be automatically rolled over one day before First Notice Day.

DISCLAIMER: You must be aware of the risks and be willing to accept them in order to invest in one or more commodity trades. Don't trade with money that you can't afford to lose. This is neither a solicitation nor an offer to buy or sell futures and options. Although every attempt has been made to assure accuracy, Tom Loffman, Cliff Harris, Randy Mann and other persons relating to the operation of Harris Mann Climatology assume no responsibilities for errors, omissions or any financial gains or losses associated with any trading suggestions or advice.