After three days of going down, the Cocoa future is up $50 Friday

A quick look at Friday: Cocoa rose $50 to close at $2,738 per metric tonne Friday which makes for a move of 1.86%.

While the Cocoa future is higher so far today, these Softs commodities are underperforming: after ending Friday's session at $79.16, Cotton lost $1.6 and is trading around $77.56. Coffee lost 1.89% Friday and closed at $180.05. Sugar descends 0.43% Friday and closed at $20.76.

Over the past 18 days, the Cocoa future has retreated 5.78% from a noteworthy peak of $2,853.