The oil-major prop desks cometh

Proprietary trading (Wikipedia): The term used in investment banking to describe when the firm's traders actively trade stocks, bonds, options, commodities, or other items with its own money as opposed to its customers' money, so as to make a profit for itself. Not so easy anymore says former Sempra Metals-economist turned Reuters columnist [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 09:21:39

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Stock futures mixed ahead of auto sales data (AP)

Traders react as they eye financial charts and data on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday Jan. 2, 2009 ... proceeded warily into the first full week of 2009, trading mixed in premarket activity Monday ahead ... in light holiday trading (AP) AP - Wall Street rose modestly in light holiday trading...European stocks [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 12:00:27

Tips for Improving your Investing

Many investors -- especially beginning investors -- want tips for improving their investing. There are a lot of tools out there ( ... strategies. However, Stock Trading To Go has some very basic and active things you can do in order ... as funds, bonds, currencies, options, commodities, futures and other opportunities might [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 19:38:01

Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings

Stock-Net presents custom stock ratings, powered by Caprock Analytics ... on energy trading activities focused on buying and selling futures contracts and other derivative instruments based on the commodities it produces. The Company has four principal subsidiaries [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 13:03:08

Closing Comments December 01 2008

Prices of Treasury coupon securities have surged today in another historic trading session as yields once again plumb depths never thought imaginable. Stock market routs around the globe motivated early trading as did pervasive weakness in global manufacturing activity [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 21:14:03

Financial Crisis Has Biological Roots, Too

Wisci_nyse_660x Successful stock traders may be physically prone to hormonal excess — a physiology that leads to success on fast-paced trading ... world may be throwing a human-sized wrench in its own gears. "Trading is a physical activity ... author of the study and former Wall Street trading-desk operator. "We're looking at how the market [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 22:34:58

SF Fed President Yellen Talks Dovish

A: I'm taking some time off from real estate this month and watching all that is happening in the stock market & credit world. A little disclosure, I did re-activate my trading account to get a more real time look at what is going on daily in the equity markets; screenshot at bottom of this post of my trading software [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 18:56:54

Dow Up 890 After Ten-Times Increase in Commercial Paper Sales

US equity markers were already having a very good day, even by the standards of recent high market volatility, ... Davis, an independent trader active in Treasury and stock-index futures at the Chicago Board of Trade [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 20:36:01

Manufacturing Activity Falls to 28-Year Low

Manufacturing activity inhuman more than expected in December, ... off the grim announce on the new year’s first day of trading, eager to start fresh after the losses of 2008. Stocks were higher in late-morning trading, with the Dow Jones industrial average up 98.05 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 21:21:33

Mutual Funds, ETFs News and Views

Every Stock Mutual Fund Lost Money in 2008 But One | The Big Picture Given that most equity mutual funds are required to be fully (or 90%) ... , |-- Forex Foreign Currencies Exchange Trading Discussion, |-- Stocks, IPO, Options, Warrants, Bonds, Mutual ... Funds: Do You Get What ... A new survey from S&P shows pricey actively-managed mutual funds [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 18:54:29

Market Mayhem Watch: Fear and Greed

Guido can't resist and is now actively trading once again in financial markets, attracted by the blood on the streets of New York and London ... to financial futures, foreign exchange and commodities rather than individual stocks. Have an aversion [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 08:29:41

STOCK FUTURES MIXED AHEAD OF AUTO SALES DATA (AP)

Traders react as they eye financial charts and data on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday Jan. 2, 2009 ... proceeded warily into the first full week of 2009, trading mixed in premarket activity Monday ahead [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 12:00:27

Stock futures mixed ahead of auto sales data (AP)

Traders react as they eye financial charts and data on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday Jan. 2, 2009 ... proceeded warily into the first full week of 2009, trading mixed in premarket activity Monday ahead [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 12:00:27

5 Stock Trading Essentials for 2009

Stock Trading has become increasingly widespread in this decade with the introduction of discount trading brokers and online trading activity. Stock trading volumes have surged and online day trading has come to common individual ... extended wild swings of euphoria and despair, often more ... Related posts:Buying Google Stock [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 12:38:54

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