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Darin Newsom

Thu, Apr 23rd, 2026

Darin Newsom

Darin Newsom

Darin Newsom is the President of Darin Newsom Analysis and the Senior Market Analyst for Barchart. With nearly 40 years of experience analyzing commodity and financial sectors, he has developed a way of understanding the different characteristics of the various markets. 

Previously, he was a Senior Analyst at DTN for close to fifteen years, where he provided customers with market insight, analysis and advice on an hourly, daily and weekly basis and oversaw all of DTN’s market commentary. He was also the creator and guiding force behind DTN’s Six Factor Marketing Strategies. Darin has over 20 years of experience analyzing commodity markets and developing risk-management strategies. Prior to joining DTN, Newsom was a producer risk-management consultant for FCStone and a grain merchandiser at the Great Bend, Kansas, Cooperative.

Darin has appeared on numerous international financial television programs and news sites and is an award-winning columnist whose work has been featured on websites and in magazines for decades. He is well-known for his unique analytical observations on how markets work and has spoken at international conferences and meetings over the years. He has been involved in the industry on nearly every level; from grain merchandiser and broker to senior market analyst for a major agricultural media organization to having his own commentary and analysis service used by long-term investment interests, all while proudly reminding everyone he is neither a journalist nor an economist. 

 

 

Most Recent Stories

Is Irrational Market Behavior Predictable?

The past decade has taught has to predict what will be said, and why, leading to the rise of predictive market websites as "trading" platforms, among other things.

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Is Wheat a Good Long-Term Investment?

When I saw the picture available to use of a ghost in a wheat field, I knew I had to use it for this piece discussing long-term investments in a market known as Poverty Grass.

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Why Are Fridays in the Commodity Complex Easy to Predict?

As I've said before, the job of analyzing markets has grown much easier given the repetitive cycle of market drivers.

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What a New Generation of Traders in Commodities Might Mean For Markets

A recent story in Barrons talked about how the predictive market site Kalshi was adding new commodities for "trading"; commodities like Natural Gas and Wheat.

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Crude Oil: Short Supply, Demand Destruction, or Alternate Alliteration?

Early Tuesday morning, the IEA reportedly said crude was facing 'demand destruction' due to the US president's War on Iran.

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Do We Need to Fear a "Super El Niño"?

Watch out for the "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" El Niño headed our way this year.

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Did Watson Blow a Fuse With the Latest TACO Tuesday Trade?

After bouncing back and forth all day Tuesday, algorithms got the headline Tuesday night that the US president had backed off his threat to end Iran's civilization forever. Markets responded accordingly....

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What Does Brent's Basis Market Tell Us?

My reads on real market fundamentals in crude oil indicate there is indeed a short-term supply scare in place.

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Hormuz Shutdown: Where are the Grain, Cattle, and Oil Markets Headed?

The war in Iran is driving a historic surge in energy and grain prices while simultaneously threatening to break the cattle market due to rising input costs and shrinking consumer disposable income.

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3 Ripple Effects of "Sticker" Shock

The US president was not happy about stickers showing up at US fuel stations pointing to higher prices. This led to expected, market-moving (but not changing) ripple effects.

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