Drought Pdsi Agribusiness
In plain terms
Long-running farm-belt drought → long water utilities + seed; short food processors.
How it works
Sustained D2+ drought in farm-belt → water utilities long; pure-yield ag short.
Data dependencies
- Daily prices
Adjusted-close OHLCV for every US-listed ticker; primary price feed.
- Usdm drought
A data feed this strategy reads, refreshed on its normal schedule.
Expected edge
- Reported return
- 50-100 bps/mo
- Tested over
- T+0 to T+90d
50-100 bps/month drift.
Example tickers where this is likely to fire
Illustrative only, the signal fires based on the live data, not a fixed list.
Related families
Strong El Niño/La Niña shocks soft commodities → ag stocks rally 3-6 months.
NWS forecasts cold spike → long nat-gas E&P for 1-2 weeks.
USDA WASDE yield surprises: an upside surprise (bumper crop, cheaper grain) helps processor margins (ADM/BG/INGR/DAR) and hurts equipment demand (DE/AGCO); a downside surprise is the reverse.
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