Feedlot placement margin check

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# Feedlot placement margin check

For one placement month and expected finish month. CME product ids from step 1 carry into every settlement read.

## 1. Cattle prices

1. Find feeder cattle and live cattle futures with @[CME Group · Product search](alexandria:cmegroup-com/fomc-rate-probabilities/product_search) and read @[CME Group · Futures settlements](alexandria:cmegroup-com/fomc-rate-probabilities/futures_settlements) for the placement and finish months.

## 2. Feed cost

2. Read corn futures settlements for the months the cattle will be on feed with @[CME Group · Futures settlements](alexandria:cmegroup-com/fomc-rate-probabilities/futures_settlements).

## 3. Positioning

3. Find feeder and live cattle with @[CFTC COT · Markets](alexandria:cftc-gov/commitments-of-traders/markets) and read managed money with @[CFTC COT · Disaggregated futures only](alexandria:cftc-gov/commitments-of-traders/disaggregated_futures_only) for the last eight weeks.

## 4. Supply coming

4. For two or three cow-calf regions you buy from, read @[NASA POWER · Monthly history](alexandria:power-larc-nasa-gov/weather-history/monthly_history) for rainfall and compare with @[NASA POWER · Climate normals](alexandria:power-larc-nasa-gov/weather-history/climate_normals). Dry pasture pushes calves to market early.

## Write the margin check

- **Inputs:** feeder price at placement, live cattle at finish, corn for the feeding period.
- **Spread:** live minus feeder per hundredweight; plug in your own weights, conversion and yardage.
- **Funds:** crowded long or short.
- **Supply:** pasture rainfall versus normal.
- Not trading advice.
- **Sources:** cite every figure to the capability and record it came from. Say what could not be found rather than guessing.

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