Experimenting with AI to generate ideas. June this year, no softs book, heard about a "super" El Niño. Asked AI what is not in the price. It said Sugar #11 Mar 27, not the front. Bought the 20-strike expiring 16 Feb 27 at 0.50. Now 1.04. Will share how I use AI to track the dataflow to validate or kill the trade.
A Brazilian mill is not growing "sugar." It is growing cane. Each tonne can be crystal or ethanol. They pick whichever pays more that week.
Ethanol is two products. Mix-in ethanol is required in gasoline by law (Brazil raised that this August). That is a floor. Straight ethanol competes with gasoline at the pump. If ethanol is under about 70% of the gasoline price, drivers fill with ethanol, and mills lean fuel.
That is why sugar can rise when oil spikes even if Brazil's field is huge. It is a mix switch, not a drought. It does not move tick for tick with oil.
El Niño is the other tail: Droughts in India and Thailand impact supply with lag. The March 2027 future contract can catch both.
What is in the price, and what is the target for March 2027 sugar?
~19 cents a pound currently prices in El Niño odds + industry forecast of 2.9 million tonnes short in 2027/28. Last El Niño, 2015-16, sugar hit about 24 cents on a 5 million tonne shortfall. That 24 is the analogue if a hole like that prints.
To go higher from here we want to see actual deterioration in harvest data from India/Thailand, and India still not shipping after 30 Sep.
The El Niño trade is Mar 27 sugar, not this harvest. Key data AI is helping to watch:
1) India monsoon - watch CPC (the Niño forecast), next 10 Sep
2) Brazil sugar vs ethanol mix - watch Conab, last 20 Aug (less sugar, more ethanol)
3) India importing vs exporting - watch the 1 million tonne import quota through 31 Oct, and the export ban, next 30 Sep
4) World balances - watch WASDE, next 11 Sep
Close trade if CPC downgrades the Niño, India skips the import or resumes exports, or Brazil increases the sugar mix.
Experimenting with AI to generate ideas. June this year, no softs book, heard about a "super" El Niño. Asked AI what is not in the price. It said Sugar #11 Mar 27, not the front. Bought the 20-strike expiring 16 Feb 27 at 0.50. Now 1.04. Will share how I use AI to track the dataflow to validate or kill the trade.
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