For the uninitiated, every year televangelist Pat Robertson has predictions dressed up as prophecy. He contends that the Lord speaks to him [ ... to $300 a barrel."Does God really inspire his own to predict commodities futures ... is a part time commodities trader. "The Lord said the dollar is going to go down dramatically," Robertson [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 00:19:05

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Commodity Futures Trading Is Glamorous But Not For Average Investor

Trading Commodities for a living is not what it seems ... trading commodity futures contracts. There’s a well known saying amongst commodity traders: “It’s really easy to make a small fortune trading commodities… You just have to start with a large fortune!” [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 21:08:04

Nobody Likes Bland Benedict —UK Times says nobody's coming to see the Pope because he's just an old grumpy meany pants. WaPo: Iraq War Is Over! ... to $300 a barrel."Does God really inspire his own to predict commodities futures? Now I am not saying ... time commodities trader. "The Lord said the dollar is going to go down dramatically," Robertson said [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 02:44:43

Economics 101 for Congress

The New Hampshire Union Leader has a great idea.MAYBE THE quickest way to lower oil and gas prices would be this: ... on them the price would fall. But here is what Walter Lukken, chairman of the Commodity Futures ... are not unregulated traders, as Shaheen keeps saying. The real problem is that with demand continuing [more...]

Date: 2008-07-14 13:18:00

Fxworking - Fxworking.com

I'm not the admin. QUOTEFXworking is a private international membership club, it is not a HYIP-game or HYIP-pyramid ... team, as well as, by highly experienced traders involved in real estate, commodities, forex, futures ... . Interest payouts are done on trading days, and will be made directly to your LR account. Payments [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 03:06:22

Obama goes after McCain, oil speculation

by John McCormick Sen. Barack Obama's campaign went on the offensive again today on energy related matters, charging that a co-chairman for Sen ... said the provision in law exempts some energy traders from regulation and thus prevents the Commodity Futures Trading Commission from fully overseeing the oil futures market and investigating cases [more...]

Date: 2008-06-22 18:55:46

Asia Likely to Lead the US Markets Higher...

Are you ready for 2009? Asia's investors were ready to go ... trading was light, it was interesting to note that Asian commodities traders were most active. Buyers ... futures are rising, so you can expect that for those traders active in the US tomorrow [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 07:08:00

A Day In The Life of Oil

With crude oil crossing the $142/record mark on Friday, one newspaper took a close-up look at how oil affects traders, fishermen, pre-school kids, ... -old commodities trader, family man, and former top minor league baseball prospect. This strange ... futures trades on that exchange. He's scaled back in recent years and says it's too dangerous to make [more...]

Date: 2008-06-30 20:54:00

CNBC On Speculators Gone Wild: ‘So What?’

Yesterday, the Center for American Progress Action Fund’s Dan Weiss stood up for working American families as CNBC host Trish Regan and two other ... Futures Trading Commission released a report recommending specific improvements to commodities markets ... months from January to May traders poured $60 billion into the commodities market and basically per [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 23:30:34

Financial Spreads: Oil Slick, Bonds Stick And Pounding Sterling

SPREAD Watch: Anorak’s look at the financial spread markets BUY much last month? The Office For National Statistics ( ... on this year’s highs. Meanwhile, US regulators at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission allege ... s civil complaint, traders said they would “hammer” [more...]

Date: 2008-07-25 09:34:38

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 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

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

Report: German Dax, NYSE considering fusion

Report: German Dax, NYSE considering fusion December 7th, ... platform where traders can deal in stocks, options, futures, commodities and corporate bonds across two ... in an advance release of its Monday edition. Trading would based in New York, while derivatives would remain [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 20:51:02

President Bush Threatens Veto of Poison-pill Laden Drilling Bill; Oil Falls to $90/bbl

—Gabriel Malor So far, Republicans have managed not to cave on offshore drilling (though ANWR seems to be out of the question) ... . In related news, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission actually looked through the data ... the six-month period. In other words, index traders and swap dealers were driving the future price [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 14:55:10

Rick Santelli Strikes Again

Interesting discussion of credit, liquidity and commodity corrections. Steve Liesman missed the opportunity to tell Santelli that the Fed Futures traders got rates wrong for over a year -- from January 2006 until the Fed began cutting in August 2007, futures traders [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 09:30:00

Oil Speculators. WP: Regulators had long classified a private Swiss energy conglomerate called Vitol as a trader that primarily helped industrial firms that needed oil to run their businesses. But when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ... of fuel. Even more surprising to the commodities markets was the massive size of Vitol's portfolio [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 13:45:50

Oil Reclaims $120 a Barrel

The rebound in oil, which has carried crude past $121 a barrel, can no longer be dismissed as a “blip” after crude fell within $110 last week ... like much. With varying fundamental issues in play, traders are also looking at the price ... analyst at BNP Paribas Commodity Futures. Mr. McGillian says this rally will have to push through [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 15:33:19

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

Traders bet LA/OC home prices fall 18.5% more

blog-trade.bmp Traders making commodity-like bets on future home pricing think that the LA/OC market will be further smacked by losses through November ‘09. TFS Derivatives, which makes a market [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 20:17:57

Study Shows Speculators Helped LOWER Oil Prices

It was said to be the year of speculators gone wild ... , the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has offered hard statistical data that financial trading hasn't ... -month period. In other words, index traders and swap dealers were driving the future price of oil [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 15:39:38

The Aussie Goes Down Under

Those shrimp on the barbie are getting scorched. The Australian dollar has taken a big hit in the foreign exchange markets after the Reserve Bank ... data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, as of Friday, large non-commercial traders (large [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 14:49:57

OIL PRICE SHOCKS - THE REAL CULPRITS

It is clear as to who is driving up the prices of Crude and Commodities. It is not the producers or the demand supply gap that is making the lives of billions of people horrible. It is the traders, hedge funds and banking giants and large investors in Futures Commodity [more...]

Date: 2008-06-18 01:27:37

Above the fold

A DAILY round-up of economic news: The bailout saga continues to turn ... for oil yesterday. Traders buying October oil futures to cover earlier sales of the contract briefly ... by resurgent commodities prices and a tangled global financial situation. [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 14:18:14

Vultures

Nothing to see here, just move along: Regulators had long classified a private Swiss energy conglomerate called Vitol as a trader that primarily helped industrial firms that needed oil to run their businesses. But when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission examined Vitol’s books last month, it found that the firm was in fact [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 14:42:10

Surprise! More Jobs Lost & Unemployment Surges

A: Well, not a surprise actually. Anyone surprised by this report simply has decided to keep their head in the sand, to hold on to hope ... , as the fed futures traders and mass media led us to believe. Today's surge in unemployment, downward ... cut, from bets on a rate hike previously to combat commodity inflation. First the news [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 14:11:04

Commodities Markets Expected to Stabilize in 2009

Monday, December 29, 2008 Commodities may face lingering economic pressures; ... , particularly for those who had invested in oil, futures contracts were their undoing.At the start of 2009 ... demand and they need present demand," said Matt Zeman, head trader at LaSalle Futures in Chicago. "Until [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 02:50:00

Despite recent price rise, traders seeking tankers is bearish for oil

Filed under: International markets, Commodities, OilThose investors ready to position themselves in oil stocks, or perhaps even dabble in oil futures, may want to wait a while. Oil traders are seeking ... ." Dietz added that he was currently short unleaded gasoline, with a monthly contract. Continue reading [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 18:45:00

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

Unfolding Worldwide Turmoil Could Reverse Years of Prosperity

TIPPING POINT? Traders work at the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange in Sao Paulo. Brazilian stocks plunged the most in a decade as commodity producers dropped, and trading was halted twice because of the decline. (By Marcos Issa — Bloomberg News) [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 15:21:42

Obama’s Plan To Address Energy Trading

This is one way to bring some sanity back to the price of oil, ... some energy traders from regulations that govern other exchange-traded commodities. Democrats call this “ ... years. Speculators also had purchased enough corn futures to fuel the entire U.S. ethanol production [more...]

Date: 2008-06-22 18:56:50

Dec 29 2008

Mostly slow day, still presented a few nice trades. SLW particularly was useful educational one as we applied so called "umbrella concept" ... :30 {Threei}  NYMEX FEB CRUDE FUTURES MOVE BACK BELOW $40/BARREL - TRADERS 08:30 {Threei}  **Note ... {ese} my kind of measuring 09:18 {Threei}  watching SLW, possible mover on renewed commodities [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 21:06:20

One Method to Flush Out Oil Speculators: "Liquidation Only" Restriction

Daniel Dicker, a former oil trader writing at TheStreet ... has not been manipulative but just a rush to improve gains in commodities... The futures markets, however [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 18:46:52

ONN.tv's Mark2Market: CME Trader Peter Yastrow Describes Today's Massive Central Bank Actions to Keep Money Flowing

CHICAGO-(Business Wire)-September 18, 2008 - Mark2Market, ONN.tv's newest programming on futures and commodities, goes to the CME/CBOT trading floors every morning for special reports on financial markets and currency trading. On Thursday morning's edition [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 11:58:00

Oil Traders: Don't Fence Us In

Investment bank and hedge fund representatives tell the Commodity Futures Trading Commission the oil market doesn't need more oversight [more...]

Date: 2008-06-17 00:51:19

Silver Gets Spiked!

Traders enjoy the leverage that can be obtained using futures and options; however, I would like to bring to your attention the ability for you to invest with commodity-like leverage without as much risk. You see, many mining companies are similar to ... [more...]

Date: 2008-08-15 17:32:29

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

The Real Election Trading

For the last few days traders have been talking about whether the equity market is “discounting” a win by Senator Barack Obama (D ... Futures Trading Commission, according to Tom Snee, spokesman for the IEM. (Intrade is an unregulated ... near as liquid as even the more thinly-traded commodities, that doesn’t mean there isn’ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 17:32:29

The Real Election Trading

For the last few days traders have been talking about whether the equity market is “discounting” a win by Senator Barack Obama (D ... Futures Trading Commission, according to Tom Snee, spokesman for the IEM. (Intrade is an unregulated ... near as liquid as even the more thinly-traded commodities, that doesn’t mean there isn’ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 20:25:00

Shocker: Federal Regulators Conclude That Oil Speculators Not Responsible For High Gas Prices

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has released financial data indicating that commodities traders engaged in oil speculation have had little ... driving the future price of oil down. Commodity index funds also have a much smaller share ... of transactions worth billions of dollars between January and June of this year. Commodity futures [more...]

Date: 2008-09-15 14:50:11

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