How Much Money Can We Lose in Grain Markets?

Authors

Fabio Mattos, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

2014

Document Type

Article

Citation

Cornhusker Economics (February 12, 2014)

Comments

Published by University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension, Institute of Agriculture & Natural Resources, Department of Agricultural Economics. Copyright © [2014] Board of Regents, University of Nebraska. http://agecon.unl.edu/cornhuskereconomics

Abstract

Price risk in the soybean and corn markets was discussed in this newsletter last December (Cornhusker Economics, 12/04/2013 and 12/11/2013). Now we’ll follow up with a discussion about another way to measure risk in commodity markets. This measure essentially tries to answer the question “How much money can I lose over a given period of time?” as compared to the measures on price variability that we discussed last month.