Lumber futures -- a snazzy tool, proven in the academic lit.So, check this paper out.
An academic paper called "Forecasting Performance of Lumber Futures Prices"
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecri/2017/1650363/
The kicker is that 2, 4, 6, and 8 months out are all statistically significant predictors of spot prices. We sort of know this intuitively, but it's interesting to see it quantified.
So, I'm sold that 2018 is going to be PHENOMINAL year for the pure lumber plays,