What We Do
About Advance Trading
At Advance Trading, we understand now more than ever that marketing grain and livestock demands expertise, experience, and constant attention. Advance Trading is an independent Commodity Brokerage Firm that provides risk management services to grain producers, commercial elevators, end users, energy operations, and livestock operations. Our experts at Advance Trading analyze market factors such as regulations, weather, price volatility, and fundamentals in combination with cutting-edge technology to provide long-term solutions.
Advance Trading offers first-class personal attention and valuable market research to maximize results for our customers. Our expertise, experience, and close collaborative approach allow us to build strong, lasting relationships while guiding our clients toward long-term business solutions. Advance Trading can make a difference in your operation by offering tailored information, market consultation, brokerage, or special investment studies.
Trusted Risk Management since 1980
Advance Trading started in 1980 as an advisory group of four grain consultants who had experience merchandising commercial cash grain. Advance Trading customers at that time were exclusively Central Illinois grain elevators. From the beginning, Advance Trading made a commitment to be a non-biased source of information for these elevators and warehousemen. To fulfill this commitment, Advance Trading decided to never take the title of grain. The company has never broken that commitment. We remain an independent source of unbiased, factual information pertaining to the grain, feed, and livestock industry. With the introduction of options contracts to the Chicago Board of Trade in 1984, our growth in services now includes grain producers as well as end users of raw commodities.
Advance Trading has grown to include grain companies throughout the United States as well as a growing global customer base. Our group of consultants in the corporate headquarters located in Bloomington, Illinois services the larger commercial clientele being grain elevators/warehousemen as well as end users/consumers of grain. We currently have 20 employee branches and 28 non-employee branches to offer farmer marketing/ price risk management services directly to the producer in locations throughout the U.S. This network of consultants both here in Bloomington and scattered throughout the U.S. and globally gives us a valuable opportunity to share information from various markets throughout the marketplace on a daily basis. Grain elevators/warehouses and end users/consumers of raw commodities continue to be our primary core of customers, though since opening our first branch office in 1996, we have seen significant growth and expansion in the producer risk management services. This growth has helped increase the total average volume over the past 5 years. If you were to quantify the company’s average volume over the past 5 years to bushels you will get a total number in excess of six billion bushels.
