[johnandrhonda]

"Then there’s those trading the options to buy on a certain date on a certain price. These guys make the most of the money nowadays - it’s not soy that is to rare or biofuel that uses to much soy - it’s the high price for derivative contracts - and that’s an indirect result of the cheap dollar."

Not true. There are those that speculate with futures contracts, but every buyer has a seller, and every seller a buyer. Unless you can actually make delivery or take delivery of soy beans, you must clear your speculative position before the contract date. It is a zero sum game for speculators. They keep the market price fluid, but cannot really change the overall price--that is all supply and demand driven. Cheap dollar also has no impact. Where in the world did you get such strange ideas about the commodity markets?

[Rummenigge]

Future trades are certainly not zero sum. There’s always a spread.

There is more volume in calls then in put option - these are really executed and create a lot of demand at a certain time. As you say you have to clear it - buy actually buying.

What was ment as a price ensurance drives demand. Not the real demand.