Mary Shapiro Will Watch Your Stock Account like a Blind man

Mary Shapiro, the new head of the SEC is old news to me and represents more of the same, not change. She was head of the CFTC when I was a commodities broker and the commodity scams under her eagle ... Futures Association (NFA) which, as one might expect, was staffed by the biggest firms in the business [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 21:50:00

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How To Get Started In Forex Trading

The foreign exchange market (FOREX) offers several advantages to investors. But you need to know where to begin ... such as banks. A reputable broker will be registered as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as protection against duping and abusive trade practices. Open [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 21:00:04

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

Broker, Foreign Exchange Transactions

by Jay Visaya There are a lot of forex brokers to choose from ... with the Commission’s future and the merchants and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulations ... to an actual capital, is an amount of money a broker will lend you for trading. Make sure the broker [more...]

Date: 2008-10-26 19:02:42

Get Started In Forex Trading

Get Started In Forex Trading December 14th, 2008 You may have heard about the foreign exchange market (Forex) ... such as banks. A reputable broker will be registered as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as protection against fraud and abusive trade practices [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 22:03:55

How to trade commodities?

In my last post, I discussed how commodities have became more and more traded by both institutional and individual investors ... to set up such accounts though, especially through discount brokers such as Interactive Brokers ... much only done through futures. Now of course, it’s still possible to trade commodities doing [more...]

Date: 2008-07-08 10:00:14

END OF YEAR COMMENTARY

END OF YEAR COMMENTARY January 2, 2009 by david.pennington. by Michael M ... moving them up to record prices. I received a call this morning from a commodities broker who told me that the Comex is alerting various futures firms about the potential of a squeeze on the December [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 06:33:43

How to Choose a Good Quality Forex Broker | Business News

In the United States, forex brokers should be registered as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 19:46:44

IFE inc. - COMMODITY TRADING ADVISOR CTA - FOREIGN INTRODUCING BROKER FIB - Home

The International Future Exchange, Futures and options online trading, systems trading, managed futures, discount trading, simulated trading, free re 1 Vote(s) [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 01:04:30

THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 11 December 2008

FINTAG COMMENT Cash or no cash. I was queried yesterday. Apparently I am not sitting on cash and most hedge funds aren't ... ; not that my investors know - they think I am fully invested. We have the usual index futures, some commodity ... ' boards, hire and retain yes-men administrators and spread their trades around Prime Brokers who don't see [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 06:40:26

SIPC: Lehman To Be Liquidated

How did this little gem slip by unnoticed? Tomorrow at 4PM, Lehman is to be liquidated ... of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Reserve, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ... in connection with a proposed sale of the business of the broker-dealer to Barclays Capital Inc. A hearing [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 05:00:00

Obama to name woman as new head of SEC

The Obama transition's leaky pipe says that the chief executive officer of the Financial Industries Regulatory Authority, Mary Schapiro, ... commissioner. Schapiro also headed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The announcement is expected ... shop in July 2007. It the largest non-governmental regulatory organization for securities brokers [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 00:12:47

Learning All About Forex Charts Before You Start Trading

By Orlando Thompson In this article we will discuss the reason for using forex charts, what they are, different types of charts, ... high (like futures and commodities trading on Wall Street). Wider Forex charts and spreads means ... are strategies that some brokers use to get rid of the promise of tight Forex charts and spreads [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 08:04:30

ARM and Hammer: Bailout Ascends Toward $2.25 Trillion

by anderson Barry Ritholtz at the Big Picture points to the ballooning size of the financial bailout, which is now leaning toward $2 ... requirements by the Commodity Futures Modernization Act. During the early 2000s, the Federal Reserve ... ratio. After the 2004 exemption, firms levered up as much as 40 to 1. Not surprising, the five brokers [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 17:59:36

Futures Trading levels and Economic reports for Jan 2nd 2009

*To be removed, please reply with remove daytrading in subject line Dear Trader, I would like to wish everyone a great 2009! ... / commodity broker Cannon Trading Co Inc. - home of online ... May you have a successful trading year. More importantly, may you and your loved ones [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 21:00:00

Forex Scam; How forex Brokers Defraud Retail Forex Traders

According to wikipedia "A forex scam is any trading scheme used to defraud individual traders by convincing them that they can expect to gain a high profit by trading in the foreign exchange market. Currency trading 'has become the fraud du jour' as of early 2008, according to Michael Dunn of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 14:10:00

MBCFX - spread 2 pips for major

MBCFX | Forex, Futures & Commodities, Spot Gold & Silver, Spot Oil Anybody has any experience on this broker, kindly share. Is the spread fix or variable subject to market condition [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 05:18:56

Trading Fraud

Winning The War Against Fraud By Andrej Lavrenc - Independent commodity sourcing agent, and CEO of Raw Polymers Ltd. Win The War Against Fraud Buyers, sellers and brokers all share a common enemy: the scammer ... of future earnings disappearing as clients lose faith and move on to more reliable brokers. The good news [more...]

Date: 2008-09-27 01:08:03

Carbon Trading: A $64 Billion Economy And Growing

Josh Margolis keeps a grueling schedule, brokering deals between buyers and sellers and forecasting how government actions could affect his clients ... company CantorCO2e, Margolis is part of an exploding branch of finance in a new commodity: carbon ... going to have a carbon trading system in the near future.” He notes that the president-elect supports [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 06:59:27

Oil's Well That Ends Well?

I have mentioned a couple of crazy notions on Urban Digs regarding a slowing world economy and increased unemployment actually being a positive for ... broker of mine, who had previously been an ATF officer. He used to say "just because I'm paranoid doesn't ... in the commodity price decline where the question of short-term correction versus long-term [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 15:50:20

EUROPE IN RAPID DECLINE ON WORLD STAGE

January 6, 2009 Steve Collins   Many Christians have expected that Europe would be the region from which a “beast” power or “anti-Christ” ruler will emerge. One should always keep an open mind to all possibilities as we progress deeper into the end times, but on-going events are revealing Europe to be a continent in rapid decline [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 07:44:40

Fed?s Stern Optimistic on Treasury Plan to Buy Assets

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Gary Stern said Thursday he is “cautiously optimistic” about the recently passed Treasury plan to buy ... -related investments from the market in a bid to get the financial system trading openly again. Stern ... of inflation, absent a resurgence in energy and other commodity prices.” He added that inflation [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 10:52:00

A Heck Of A Deal In Florida

The St Petersburg Times reports from Florida. “Tampa Electric lost more customers than it added in the third quarter, an unprecedented reversal that slashed the utility’s profits and promises to delay power plant building. ‘We’ve never seen this since I’ve been working at Tampa Electric,’ said Gordon Gillette, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-01 16:24:17

DrumBeat: August 7, 2008

The Peak Oil Crisis: Masking the Peak As world oil production has never peaked before, there is no historical basis for making informed judgments as to what is going to happen. All we know is that some six billion people, living in some 200 economies on this earth are soon going to be confronted with getting by on less than the 86 million [more...]

Date: 2008-08-07 12:29:19

Am I eligible for a mortgage? How do you know?

We are often asked by clients if they would be eligible for a mortgage, the questions tend to be ‘could I get a mortgage? ... Banks will have an effect in the future - inflation. So if you are considering a loan an important ... eventually) a good fixed rate will be a valuable commodity and the time to do that may be early in 09′ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 12:54:12

Has Oil Broken Down?

Commodities These commodity market blowups are becoming all-too-familiar in the last few years ... in a commodity turned into a buying frenzy, fueled at first by speculators caught up in the mere expectation ... at Alaron Trading in Chicago. SemGroup said in its bankruptcy filing that it had bet that crude [more...]

Date: 2008-07-24 16:38:58

VC Open Letters: Alternative Economic Energy: not just a concept but a realistic practice for these Times

| Posted by martindudziak This is written for the benefit of both entrepreneurs (I am one, clearly, even if reluctantly) ... future, also by well-established firms. The credit crunch. The consumer confidence drop and purchasing ... "alternative economic energy" as a very real practice and commodity. It is also, btw, something [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 01:03:33

Stock Market Dictionary - M

MFifth letter of a NASDAQ stock symbol specifying that the issue is the company's fourth class of preferred shares. M1Measure of the U.S. money stock that consists of currency held by the public, travelers checks, demand deposits and other checkable deposits including NOW (negotiable order of withdrawal) and ATS (automatic transfer service) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 16:44:00

If You Don’t Buy Your Home Now, You’ll Hate Yourself Later

Special occasions occur in life at various times, and when they are acted upon in a timely manner, they can change our destiny ... and will ABSOLUTELY rise in the future. With most of us more concerned about our monthly mortgage payment than ... (like any other commodity) is market opinion [more...]

Date: 2008-08-13 11:12:40

2008: Annus Horribilis, RIP

I meant to take yet another Friday away from my writing, but as I am researching for next week’s annual prediction issue, there is so much material that begs to be covered that I thought I would put out a short letter with 3 or 4 points as a preface to my prognostications of next week [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 12:42:15

The economy

CNN By Stephen Gandel and Paul J. Lim Last Updated: October 9, 2008: 12:29 PM ET If you’re watching the news and scratching your head wondering what bomb hit the economy, you’re certainly not alone. It’s rough out there. People are losing their jobs, retirement dreams are going up in smoke and personal wealth is plummeting [more...]

Date: 2008-10-11 18:40:36

Brokers And Foreign Exchange Business

by Jay Visaya There are many Forex brokers to choose from, just as in any other market, choose a broker who will give you what you need to succeed ... and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulations as well should also be considered. Foreign exchange ... is as great as the difference in commissions in the stock market. The broker is backed [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 14:55:59

Stock Market Dictionary - I

IFifth letter of a NASDAQ stock symbol specifying that it is the third preferred bond of the company. I.B.E.S ... AssociationI.T.S.See: Intermarket trading systemIBC's money fund report averageReport giving the average yield ... and can be diversified through holding a portfolio of stocks.I-I pageRefers to over-the-counter trading. Same [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 16:40:00

Jim Grant: "Why No Outrage?"

Jim Grant, who writes and publishes Grant's Interest Rate Observer, is a rare figure on Wall Street: extraordinarily well versed in financial history, literate, possessed with a Victorian sensibility, which is very much on display here. His essay today in the Wall Street Journal is very much worth reading ( [more...]

Date: 2008-07-19 10:33:45

After Obama Victory, What to Expect in Middle East

My friend Sol Salbe just told me that after Michelle Obama, the next happiest woman in the world about Barack Obama’s victory is Tzipi Livni.  Israelis are no fools.  Despite their vaunted independence and prickliness when the world appears to be telling them what to do, Israelis “don’t need a weathervane to know which way the winds blow [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 08:29:30

CPI Drops Most On Record, What's Ahead?

For many months now I have been saying the CPI was going to go negative and stay there for quite some time. This was an easy call to make given the plunge in commodity prices in general and gasoline prices specifically.The effect would be even greater if housing prices were properly reflected in the CPI [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 05:05:00

Futures Trading levels and Economic reports for Jan 6th

*To be removed, please reply with remove daytrading in subject line Dear Trader, Market has rallied the last few sessions, mostly on thin volume, yet the shorter term upward bias is still in tact as long as we hold above 900 level. need to see the SP breaks and holds above 938 in order to see another leg up, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 21:02:00

Luck, Some More Thoughts on Dividend Paying Stocks

My previous ruminations on dividend paying companies can be found here, here and here. What do you think of the following "investing" strategy? ... (not counting taxes), plus whatever you earned in interest as well as savings on broker costs you would ... % loss, minus whatever you earned in interest and would have paid in broker commissions plus the cost [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 22:09:45

Gold

I read an article in the Global Research Monitor out of Montreal (in my Web list) ... as the G20 nations plan meetings twice a year, into the future, attempting to figure out a global response ... of the G20 creating a Bretton Woods II agreement to broker new fixed rates of exchange has some attractive [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 20:26:00

The Financial Fire Trucks Are Gathering

The Financial Fire Trucks Are Gathering “It will therefore be crucial that you see the world anew. That means looking from the outside in to reanalyze much that you have probably taken for granted. This will enable you to come to an understanding. If you fail to transcend conventional thinking at a time when conventional thinking is losing [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 11:58:29

Stock Market Dictionary - D

DFifth letter of a NASDAQ stock symbol specifying that it is a new issue, such as the result of a reverse split ... commodity, futures, and options markets are allowed to rise or fall in a day. Exchanges usually impose ... in the context of stocks to refer to the date trading begins on a new stock issued to the public.Date [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 16:33:00

3. THE FIRST $2 MILLION IS THE TOUGHEST

Trade with an edge, manage risk, be consistent, and keep it simple. The entire Turtle training, and indeed the basis for all successfultrading, can be summed up in these four core principles.The Turtle training sessions were held in a conference room at the Union League Club in Chicago, two blocks east of the CBOT [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 23:53:00

Oil Prices and Speculation

The Washington Post says the scale of speculative activity in commodities markets is larger than previous estimates indicated: A Few Speculators Dominate Vast Market for Oil Trading, by David Cho, Washington Post ... helped industrial firms that needed oil to run their businesses. But when the Commodity Futures [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 07:42:00

Stock Market Dictionary - E

EFifth letter of a Nasdaq stock symbol specifying that an issue has not met the reporting date for the company's SEC regulatory filing requirements.EAFE indexSee: European Australian and Far East indexEASDSee: European Association of Securities DealersEBIATSee: Earnings Before Interest after TaxesEBITSee: Earnings Before Interest and TaxesEBITDSee: [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 16:36:00

Gold, Silver and the Great UnwindOne person accused me of "Yellow Journalism" over the first post, ... on naked shorting for shares of the broker dealers, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac. That is just a partial ... , some gold-market analysts/observers have said that the catalyst for the rally was the purchase, by foreign [more...]

Date: 2008-08-16 16:12:12

Debt Rattle, October 30 2008: Swamps and Swaps

Lewis Wickes Hine Ethel June 1911. Ethel Shumate has rolled cigarettes in Danville, VA, factory for six months. Says she's 13 years old, but looks much younger. Ilargi: The US is now 'officially' on the edge of a recession, This looks very much like another way of saying the government gave up on trying the cook the books and massage the [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 18:55:47

Debt Rattle, October 31 2008: Scramble for Pennies

G. G. Bain Scramble for pennies - Thanksgiving 1911. Before Halloween came into its own as a holiday in the US, there was "Thanksgiving masking" Kids would dress up and go door to door for apples, or "scramble for pennies." Ilargi: In Britain, the average homeowner has lost more on the value of his property in the past year than his/her [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 19:52:15

DrumBeat: October 7, 2008

A Gift From the ’70s: Energy Lessons The presidential candidates claim to see America’s energy future, but their competing visions have a certain vintage quality. They’ve revived that classic debate: the hard path versus the soft path. The soft path, as Amory Lovins defined it in the 1970s, is energy conservation and power from the sun, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 13:15:04

I Meant to Do That

I Meant to Do That December 19, 2008 By John Mauldin The Fed has taken interest rates to zero. They have clearly started a program of quantitative easing. What exactly does that mean? Are we all now Japanese? Is the Fed pushing on a string, as Japan has done for almost two decades? [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 13:29:22

Limit Your Costs and Risks, Some New Year's Resolutions

As investors we cannot generally control the prices of the assets we invest in. We can control only two things: our risk exposure and the costs we incur. All else being equal, minimizing these ensures better returns. With this in mind, below is a list, New Year's resolutions as it were, of things we can all do to limit our costs and our risks [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 21:30:49

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