No one will dump commodities in your driveway.© Faraways/stock.adobe.com, © BillionPhotos.com/stock.adobe.com; Photo illustration Encyclopædia Britannica, IncThe concept of delivery is fundamental to the origin story of the American futures market, going all the way back to the years before the Civil War when a group of grain merchants gathered at what became the Chicago Board of Trade to buy...

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　　 　　Watching liquidity flow.© Cagkan/stock.adobe.com, © Viktorus/stock.adobe.com; Photo illustration Encyclopædia Britannica, IncTraders like to “follow the money,” and in the futures markets, two clues can help: trading volume and open interest. 　　Picture the market as a bathtub with a flowing spigot and an open drain. The spigot is volume. The drain is day traders and those closing positions. What about...

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