Commodities Held by Broker

9 Months Ended

Jul. 31, 2024

Broker-Dealer [Abstract]

Commodities Held by Broker

Note 4 - Commodities Held by Broker

The Company has used, and intends to continue to use in a limited capacity, short term coffee futures and options contracts primarily for the purpose of partially hedging and minimizing the effects of changing green coffee prices and to reduce cost of sales.

The commodities held by broker represent the market value of the Company’s trading account, which consists of options and futures contracts for coffee held with a brokerage firm. The Company uses options and futures contracts, which are not designated or qualifying as hedging instruments, to partially hedge the effects of fluctuations in the price of green coffee beans. Options and futures contracts are level 1 investments recognized at fair value in the condensed consolidated financial statements with current recognition of gains and losses on such positions. The Company’s accounting for options and futures contracts may impact earnings volatility in any particular period. The Company records all open contract positions on the condensed consolidated balance sheets at fair value in the due from and due to broker line items and typically do not offset these assets and liabilities.

The Company classifies its options and future contracts as trading securities and accordingly, realized and unrealized holding gains and losses are included in the statement of operations as a component of cost of sales.

The Company recorded realized and unrealized gains and losses respectively, on these contracts as follows:

	Three Months Ended July 31,
	2024	2023
Gross realized gains	$405,608	$265,801
Gross realized losses	(133,392)	(236,404)
Unrealized gains (losses), net	464,272	(159,955)
Total	$736,488	$(130,558)

	Nine Months Ended July 31,
	2024	2023
Gross realized gains	$1,187,382	$642,709
Gross realized losses	(903,162)	(1,528,765)
Unrealized gains, net	934,974	776,521
Total	$1,219,194	$(109,535)