At Charter, we tailor our services to your particular needs.
If you are a grain and/or livestock producer, your focus may be on production, rather than marketing. For you, we provide:
1. A free initial consultation designed to understand your agricultural operation and assess any marketing plans you already have in place.
2. A marketing plan designed specifically for your operation that also accommodates your style of management. Your comfort with any plan is essential.
3. Answers to your questions, including:
4. Information. Our job is to keep abreast of the market changes that affect you. We notify you if we think action is warranted.
5. Availability. We're reachable by telephone from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. CST on weekdays whenever the grain or livestock markets are open. You can also reach us anytime by email or fax.
6. Newsletter. We produce a 4-page biweekly marketing newsletter that concentrates on corn and soybean marketing and analysis and makes general recommendations. It comes to you by mail, fax or email, and eventually will be available on the clients-only portion of this website.
7. Seminars and free meals. We conduct two or three sets of marketing seminars per year, held in various locations in Iowa and Nebraska. The object of these sessions is to educate you about the state of the agricultural markets, as well as give you a 'heads up' look at what we see coming that we believe will impact prices. Then, we eat!
8. Recommendations that are specific to your situation.
9. The 'Model Farm,' a hypothetical entity that follows all our general recommendations and is a way to assess the effect of those recommendations over time.
10. Our own five- or ten-minute recorded market analysis, updated every market day afternoon and available via a toll-free, client-only telephone number.
What if you already understand ag marketing and just need a broker to place trades? For you, we offer:
1. A trading account set up according to your needs.
2. Fast, accurate trade exectution and callbacks on fills as you specify.
3. Trading tools at your fingertips. As an introducing broker for ADM Investor Services, Inc., Charter Commodities, Ltd. can offer its customers unlimited access to the entire array of quotes, charts and research available from ADMIS.
4. Full-time access to us.
DISCLAIMER: THE RISK OF LOSS IN TRADING FUTURES AND OPTIONS CONTRACTS CAN BE SUBSTANTIAL. CAREFULLY CONSIDER WHETHER SUCH TRADING IS SUITABLE FOR YOU. PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS.
