Coffee

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Change is brewing as Chinese switch to coffee
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/featur ... 33957.html

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Coffee prices rise 7% over the past month.

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Coffee prices fall more than 35% over the last nine months.

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Coffee Is the World’s Biggest Source of Antioxidants

By Adda Bjarnadottir

Source: www.authoritynutrition.com

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1711527 ... campaign=9

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Another Big Rally in This Commodity Is Starting Now By Jeff Clark

Get ready for another big coffee rally…

In January 2014, I called coffee the "trade of the year." After falling 67% in three years, there wasn't a lot of downside risk left, and there was plenty of upside potential.

Traders who took my advice to buy made 70% gains when we sold in March.

In June, coffee looked set to rally again. Prices had pulled back and the chart looked poised for a breakout. So I recommended another coffee trade. In October, we locked in 24% profits.

It looked like we were going to get yet another rally in coffee this past April. But instead of surging higher, the price of coffee has slowly drifted lower over the past few months in a drowsy effort to find some sort of a bottom.

On Monday, though, the price of coffee exploded 5% higher. That's a massive move. It added to those gains on Tuesday. And by the look of the chart, there are even bigger gains ahead…

Take a look at this chart of coffee plotted along with its nine-day exponential moving average (EMA) and its 50-day moving average (DMA)…

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Last year's big rally in coffee started when the nine-day EMA crossed above the 50-DMA. This "bullish cross" often marks the start of at least a short-term rally. In this case, coffee rallied about 85% in just the next three months.

In April, the nine-day EMA looked ready, once again, to cross above the 50-DMA. But it didn't happen. The nine-day EMA backed away. And the price of coffee drifted lower.

Now, after several months of chopping around in a low level consolidation, the price of coffee is breaking out. And the chart is set up for another bullish cross of the nine-day EMA over the 50-DMA.

This is the start of another big rally for coffee.

The chart has resistance overhead at around $1.45 per pound. If coffee can get above that level, then the next target is up around $1.70.

The easiest way to trade coffee is with the iPath Bloomberg Coffee Subindex Total Return ETN (JO). This exchange-traded note uses the futures market to track the performance of the price of coffee.

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JO broke above both moving average lines on Monday. Its next resistance level is up around $26 per share. But if the coffee rally really gets going, we could see JO trading above the $30 level within the next few months. That's a 30% gain from Tuesday's closing price.

The stock was a little extended after the big rally on Monday and Tuesday. Yesterday's pullback gave JO a chance to retest its moving average lines as support. This gives traders an excellent chance to buy. The intermediate-term trend is higher.

Source: www.growthstockwire.com

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Drinking coffee may lower your risk of heart attack

by Dr. David Eifrig

http://thecrux.com/new-study-shows-drin ... rt-attack/

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Vietnam Coffee Inventories Jump Threefold Amid Grower Hoarding
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... r-hoarding

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Coffee prices tumble nearly 30% in 2015.

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How a cup of coffee affects your body from the first sip
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-dri ... first-sip/

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A 25% Rally – Starting Soon – in This Commodity By Brett Eversole

Coffee prices are on the verge of soaring…

Today, investors hate commodities… and coffee is no exception.

The last time we saw a setup like this, coffee prices rocketed nearly 72% higher in just four months. And over the past decade, these opportunities would have led to 25% average gains in just more than four months.

Coffee isn't a "buy" just yet. But a fantastic opportunity is setting up right now.

Let me explain…

Futures traders are currently betting against coffee at one of the highest paces we've ever seen. We can see this with the Commitment of Traders (COT) report for coffee.

As longtime readers know, the COT is a weekly report that shows the real-money bets of futures traders. Most of the time, this report doesn't tell us much. But when futures traders all agree, it can be a powerful contrarian indicator.

In the case of coffee, when futures traders are all betting on lower prices, the opposite tends to happen… Coffee prices tend to soar.

Today, the COT report shows that futures traders are uniformly negative on coffee. They're betting on lower prices with the strongest conviction that we've seen in years. Take a look…

A reading less than -14,000 has been a powerful negative reading over the past decade. And that's where we are today.

Importantly, coffee prices tend to rally after the COT report hits extreme negativity and then rebounds to a reading of 0 or higher. If you had bought each time that happened over the previous decade, you'd have made 25% average gains in just more than four months. Take a look…

Buy Date Return to Peak Time (Months)
12/01/2006 17.8% 4.2
10/12/2007 20.1% 4.8
06/01/2009 24.0% 5.1
08/16/2013 -9.7% 3.5
04/25/2014 71.6% 4.0
Average 24.8% 4.3

This setup has happened five times over the past decade. And all but one of these trades were winners. The largest gain was nearly 72% in four months last year.

The COT report for coffee is currently hitting negative extremes. So we'll need to see it rebound before we consider buying. And luckily, we don't have to be futures traders to bet on coffee prices…

We can easily bet on higher prices with the iPath Bloomberg Coffee Fund (NYSE: JO). This fund tracks the price of coffee… and it's a simple way to make this trade.

Once again, we need to see the COT indicate a rebound above 0 before we buy. But once that happens, 25% gains in around four months are possible. And you can easily make the trade through shares of JO. Keep this idea on your radar and be prepared to buy soon.

Source: Daily Wealth