Oscillators As Decision Guides in Hedging Feeder Cattle: An Economic Evaluation

James R. Russell and John R. Franzmann

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1979, vol. 11, issue 1, 83-88

Abstract: In recent years, extremely variable price movements have caused a high degree of price risk in the cattle industry. Cattle producers who chose to accept this price risk at the correct time had extraordinary gains, whereas those who accepted this risk at the improper time had returns below cost of production. Hedging offers the cattle producer an excellent opportunity to transfer a portion of the price risk to another party. Selective transfer of the risk can both increase the magnitude of returns and decrease their variance [1, 2, 4]. The family of technical tools called oscillators, one of the most useful tools employed by commodity traders [6, p. 34], was used to develop hedging strategies for feeder cattle.

Date: 1979
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