Futures Trading

Futures Trading Written by Gracie De Guzman in Saturday, October 11th 2008 under Uncategorized Leave your reply Are you interested in futures trading? Well, in order to succeed in this business you have to learn commodity trading plans, whether [more...]

Date: 2008-10-12 02:22:36

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Obama Hates Oil Speculators, Hearts Ethanol

Bloomberg reports that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is proposing new rules to increase government interven... err... oversight in energy markets. He wants to "require the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to regulate trading in energy futures contracts and direct the commission to investigate ways [more...]

Date: 2008-06-23 16:04:51

Volume trading

Hello everyone, I'm trading futures, mostly GC. I have a question. Does someone who trade also futures uses some software to track market volume? I mean the software such as Bloomberg or something.. I'd like to find people on this board who trade using volumes. I think together we could spread our thoughts to each other to make trading [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 22:36:04

Return of the Sonar

Haven't run the Volatility Sonar much lately, mainly because......well, volatility got kind of draggy ... of interest happened a couple days ago, buyer of 20,000 Feb. 55 calls. Remember they trade off Feb. futures, and Feb. futures traded at a premium to "cash" VIX, so they were not as far out of the money [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 12:11:00

Your New Year’s Trading Resolutions

Happy New Year to all.  It is that infamous time to make resolutions — and more importantly keep them right? ... to finally achieve the results you’ve been working so hard for in your forex trading, futures trading ... points ($1,010/contract) Crude Oil Futures: 14 Wins - 4 Losses +2.68 ($2,680/contract) EURUSD Forex [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 18:47:20

The gas legislation we pass

By Kate Sheppard The House of Representatives took up a triumvirate of environment and energy-related bills today, ... Futures Trading Commission to exert tougher oversight of the oil futures markets. In a 402-19 vote ... or unreasonable fluctuations" in energy futures prices and trading activities that "prevent [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 00:13:20

The Woman Who Could Have Prevented This Financial Mess Was Silenced by Greenspan, Rubin and Summers

By Katrina vanden Heuvel, TheNation.com. Posted October 11, 2008 ... of, Brooksley Born, head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — a federal agency that regulates options and futures trading — was the oracle whose warnings about the dangerous boom in derivatives [more...]

Date: 2008-10-12 15:13:00

Introducing ... Treasury Secretary Phil Gramm?

David Corn has the goods on Phil Gramm's role in facilitating Wall Street's woes in Mother Jones ... , this was a Gramm family affair. In 1992, Wendy Gramm, then chairwoman of the Commodity Futures Trading ... Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which not only sweepingly exempted all energy trading carried [more...]

Date: 2008-05-29 21:52:03

MCX gets nod to begin stock exchange operations

After launching carbon trading and currency futures, the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) ... , has spot and futures trading in 60 commodities with a focus on energy basket and metals. It launched ... Nations mandate. This can be sold either immediately or through a futures market, just like any other [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 06:17:49

Morning News Dump

I hope y'all got a good night sleep, cause today is going to be a busy day. Here's a quick snap of what happened why you were slumbering: Futures trading: Dow off 375 ... Street's Week (WSJ) ~~~ Intrade now has futures trading where you can bet on what US Bank will fail [more...]

Date: 2008-09-15 09:55:42

Managed Futures Shine in 2008 Massacre

Managed futures funds or Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) ... , trade over 100 highly liquid global futures contracts, including stock indexes, bond indexes ... compared to a 15.6% gain for the CSFB/Tremont Managed Futures Index. Only dedicated short-sellers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 19:38:44

Foreign Currency Trading

Managers, pp. 291-299, which can be accessed through the House Agriculture Committee’s Farm Bill Homepage ... currency (forex) trading scams.The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA) made clear ... -exchange trading of foreign currency futures and options contracts with retail customers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 19:18:00

THE ONION CONUNDRUM

Before the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission starts scrutinizing the role that speculators may have played in driving up fuel and food prices, investigators may want to take a look at price swings a commodity not in today's news: onions, says Fortune magazine.Onions are the only commodity for which futures trading is banned. Back [more...]

Date: 2008-07-09 13:14:56

"Futures Prices Determine Physical Oil Prices"

It's gratifying when someone takes on a topic I had wanted to address and does a better job than I could have ... that trading in oil futures can't really influence the price of physical oil because it doesn't ... of futures trading. Even better, they should be required to explain in detail how it is that investors [more...]

Date: 2008-07-04 02:09:30

Oil Scapegoat Update: CFTC Finally Finds Some Evil Speculators!

The Netherlands is known more for its bucolic landscapes, dotted with windmills and tulip beds, than for its connection to energy markets. But that's where the Commodities Futures Trading ... the CFTC launched its probe into irregularities in energy markets. FT: The Commodity Futures Trading [more...]

Date: 2008-07-24 18:13:00

Common Questions About Currency Trading

Although forex is the largest financial market in the world, it is relatively unfamiliar terrain to retail traders ... from other markets?Unlike the trading of stocks, futures or options, currency trading does not take ... .Until the popularization of internet trading a few years ago, FX was primarily the domain of large [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 21:21:00

IB programmes in the Forex market

ForexGen IB programme is a great opportunity for both individuals and companies to receive commission for introducing their customers or contacts to ... services and training · Insurance companies · Successful traders on FOREX, stock, futures markets · Trading rooms · Investment or trading clubs · Stock brokerage or trading companies · Money managers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 20:32:00

Investment Bankers = Carbon Traders: Entrusted With Earth's Future?

financial trading desk cap and trade photo Trust In The Speculator Class Eroded We've all read about the world's financial system collapsing, ... the dynamic of the US Presidential election: all triggered by "derivatives" trading schemes enabled ... people that caused the banking system melt down - promoting and utilizing unregulated systems [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 15:28:01

McCain Aide Created 'Enron Loophole'

Editor's Note: On Wednesday evening, Keith Olbermann, the host of MSNBC's "Countdown," reported the findings of a "Countdown investigation" ... its proposed regulation of energy futures trading, a market that was famously abused when Enron ... into the Commodities Futures Modernization Act that exempted from regulation energy trading on electronic [more...]

Date: 2008-06-19 14:00:00

foreign currency scam

UPDATE:  On May 22, 2008, the Congress passed H.R. 6124, the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (also known as “the Farm Bill”) ... a sharp rise in foreign currency (forex) trading scams. The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 ... trading authority and operate pools with respect to retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 11:15:07

Morning News

Morning News Posted by James O'Rourke on June 25, 2008 From the Washington Post: Sen ... that protects some trading in energy futures from federal oversight, his advisers said. “I think everyone ... Furman, are to ensure that U.S. energy futures cannot be traded in offshore, unregulated markets [more...]

Date: 2008-06-25 15:16:18

Clearinghouses Volumes To Fall, S&P Says. What Does This Mean For BM&FBovespa?

Standard and Poor's said in a report released Jan. 9 that the global exchange and clearinghouse industry will experience a downturn in volumes and ... billion reais in November (a total of 5.54 million trades,) compared with 122.54 billion reais traded ... by about half from the 13.77 million traded in October. Currency futures traded 4.95 million [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 12:26:19

Futures new years resolution + levels and Economic reports for Dec. 31st

*To be removed, please reply with remove daytrading in subject line Dear Trader, Worth reading from our weekly newsletter and written by a Cannon Broker: Futures Traders New Years Resolution by Mack B. Stevens, Senior Broker, Cannon Trading Trading futures is an alluring [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 21:03:00

Oil rises towards $40 on Israel-Hamas violence

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Wall Street was set to begin the final three days of 2008 trading with a modest gain, ... futures were all modestly higher. Trading was expected to be quiet, with many market participants ... 2% and Paris and Frankfurt up more than 1% in morning trading. Asian markets ended mostly higher, with Tokyo's [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 09:37:57

Auto bailout fails. What a mess.

The deal died in the Senate, so Wall Street's likely to take a dive.The failure of Senate talks on a $14 billion deal to rescue the U.S ... Yasutoshi Nagai, chief economist at Daiwa Securities SMBC in Tokyo. U.S. stock futures were lower in screen trade with Dow Jones Industrial Average futures down 320 points; spreadbetting firms in Europe [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 00:09:45

Safe Harbor for Prediction Markets?

As everyone who has read The Wisdom of the Crowds knows, prediction markets are excellent predictors of future events like elections ... Professor John McGinnis reports, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is recognizing the benefits ... , exempting them from cumbersome financial trading laws. As McGinnis argues, creating such an exception would [more...]

Date: 2008-07-11 19:29:49

Some Opening Comments June 27 2008

Prices of Treasury coupon securities are registering small mixed changes in overnight trading ... trading. Current futures market prices (it is 623AM on the beautiful South Shore of Long Island ... percent.The 2 year/10 year spread is flatter by 4 basis points and trades around 134 basis points [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 10:51:21

Kungfutrader.com Portfolio positions

Each week, we will update current positions indicated by our proprietary trend following system for the futures markets and our Ultimate Stock ... Trading System.  Positions as of Friday in the futures may be seen in the accompanying spreadsheet.  At this point in time, due to continued bearish conditions in the stock market, there are no ... [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 01:47:55

Crude Oil Contango, And Not A Tanker To Be Found

Crude oil is currently in contango as futures are trading at a significant premium to spot prices (see WSJ article). As of yesterday's close, spot prices were around $43 a barrel as May futures were trading near $50 a barrel. Unfortunately, to profit from the difference, you need to store the crude somewhere, yet [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 14:52:52

Quality Registered Institution

In the United States, forex brokers should be registered as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) ... . ForexGen offers a free trial Forex demo account that allows you to test your skills and practice without ... , no swaps and instant account Activation.2. Scandinavian quality with Swiss precision, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 17:41:00

FACTBOX: Major U.S. financial oversight agencies face reforms

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The incoming Obama administration looks likely to shake up the federal agencies that regulate the U.S ... auditors. About 3,500 employees. Formed in 1934. * Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Oversees commodity and financial futures. About 490 employees. Formed in 1974. (Reporting by Kevin Drawbaugh [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 23:44:40

US Home Price Securities - Getting Closer To Launch

MarketWatch is reporting that MacroShares Housing Depositor LLC today filed an amended prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission to ... expressed herein are those of the author, and no statement should be as an offer to buy or sell any futures contract, or security or option or other derivative instrument. Trading of all such futures [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 14:41:58

Other Markets (2)

Most of these exchanges operate on basically the same principle as the stock exchanges, ... of futures, for example, is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) rather than ... , today’s computers and dedicated financial media are so broad that information on any [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 08:43:51

Obama to name SEC nominee Thursday, sources say

From Brianna Keilar, Ed Henry and Jessica Yellin CNN CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) ... Futures Trading Commission and Dan Tarullo to fill one of the vacancies on the Federal Reserve Board ... as chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in 1994 during the Clinton Administration [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 14:33:15

Managed Futures Funds Gain in Popularity and Performance

Excellent article from MarketWatch.  Of course to us it’s just preaching to the choir ... of negative performance. Managed Futures funds (also referred to as Commodity Trading Advisors or CTAs ... , commodity futures and currency markets. Managers who have done well to- date this quarter have generally [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 23:09:12

Crude Oil Industry Headline News

"Crude Oil Up But Seesaws On Gaza, Russia, Dollar"U.S ... forward curve of futures contracts traded on the New York....Complete Story"Iran Says OPEC to Hold ... . crude oil futures edged upbut trading seesawed on Monday as a stronger dollar brought prices down [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 16:14:00

Jet Fuel – To Hedge or Not to Hedge? (Part 2)

This article is taken from the Trader's Journal magazine (May 2008 issue) The Author, Ron Schelling, is an independent trader in The Netherlands with over 30 years in aviation, of which 20 years experience trading Forex, futures arbitrage trading and jet fuel hedging [more...]

Date: 2008-07-03 16:01:12

OptionsXpress Aug. trading volume dips

(AP) — OptionsXpress Holdings Inc., a provider of online options and futures trading, said Wednesday daily trading volume slipped in August, but client assets rose during the month. Retail daily average revenue trades fell 14 percent from August 2007 to 30,700. Retail trading volume was 19 ... [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 15:48:00

Who let the oil market be manipulated?

For anyone who believes that speculation by energy traders explains at least a portion of the run-up in oil prices, the announcement that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating oil market ... some commodity trading exchanges to operate without oversight while others must report what's going [more...]

Date: 2008-05-30 15:51:47

EURO/USD Daily

Disclaimer: Trading Futures and Options on Futures and Cash Forex transactions involves substantial risk of loss and may not be suitable for all investors. You should carefully consider whether [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 14:00:58

Oil speculation bigger than we knew

by Frank James For the past few months as oil-futures prices were breaking records with a barrel of oil topping out around $150, ... ' influence. Last month, the main U.S. regulator of commodities trading, the Commodity Futures Trading [more...]

Date: 2008-08-15 20:09:58

Opening Comments October 9 2008

Prices of Treasury securities registered bifurcated results in the overnight trading session ... percent to 1.50 percent. Trading in the futures markets indicates that US stocks will open with sharp ... yesterday and only alluded to it there. When the trading day begins I will develop some follow [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 10:54:23

CFTC Report on High Oil Prices - "Speculation My A$$"

With a pending Senate vote on the "Stop Excessive Energy Speculation Act", it seems that we (not the TOD 'we', but the collective society 'we') ... . In this report, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), threw cold water on the recent ... , activity on the crude oil futures market – as measured by the number of contracts outstanding, trading [more...]

Date: 2008-07-23 14:47:59

The case for oil price speculation improves

U.C. San Diego economist Jim Hamilton has long argued that fundamental forces of supply and demand explain oil prices better than "speculation ... by David Cho, "A Few Speculators Dominate Vast Market for Oil Trading." Hamilton closed his dissection ... recently deemed by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission to be more of a speculator than [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 16:28:48

Some Opening Comments September 10 2008

Prices of Treasury coupon securities have retreated in European trading reversing some of the outsized gains attained yesterday ... in Asia and are declining in Europe. Futures market trading ... the tone for fixed income market trading. Lehman Brothers stock declined 50 percent yesterday so it does [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 11:06:18

What do onion prices tell us about oil prices?

A reader asked me a while back what I thought of this little article by my former Fortune colleague Jon Birger about onions: The bulbous root is the only commodity for which futures trading is banned. Back in 1958, onion growers convinced themselves that futures traders (and not the new farms sprouting up in Wisconsin [more...]

Date: 2008-07-08 11:45:33

Federalized Deregulatory Corporate Law

Since the country’s founding, states have fashioned most of the regulatory landscape for the incorporation and supervision of ... to self-regulatory organizations along lines that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is famous ... corporation charter could begin the transformation, perhaps followed in future years by mandatory [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 14:23:42

Cebolas

“What onions teach us about oil prices” na CNN The bulbous root is the only commodity for which futures trading is banned. Back in 1958, onion growers convinced themselves that futures traders (and not the new farms ... in onions. The law still stands. And yet even with no traders to blame, the volatility in onion prices [more...]

Date: 2008-07-09 09:35:41

What Can Onions Teach Us About Oil Prices?

Onions have no futures market, yet their recent price volatility makes the swings in oil and corn look tame ... in a commodity not in today's news: onions. The bulbous root is the only commodity for which futures trading is banned. Back in 1958, onion growers convinced themselves that futures traders were [more...]

Date: 2008-06-29 15:52:02

Some Opening Comments June 6 2008

Prices of Treasury coupon securities posted disparate results in overseas trading as the repercussions of the statement yesterday by ECB grand ... . Futures trading indicates that US equities will open modestly lower following the sharp rally ... , and is 4.71 percent.The 2 year /10 year spread has flattened by 7 basis points to 148 basis points [more...]

Date: 2008-06-06 11:36:53

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