Now that's really funny...
It it at times like this that you realize how difficult it would have been to just follow the simple investment advice of buying commodities in the ... in commodities, yet with news of a high profile commodity hedge fund shutting down and twitchy traders ... about the recent slide in commodity prices is that much of the big move down is being attributed [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 15:18:00
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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
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
Forex Trading- Size is Key to Survival
by singapore trader reports The legendary commodities trader Ed Seykota, who turned $5,000 into $15 million over a period of 12 years, was teaching a class in technical trading to a college class some years ago when he decided ... of any dealer’s trading plan. He said his class they were going to contend in a trading competition [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 01:03:50
Size Does Matter- It helps to survive the market
by singapore trader reports The legendary commodities trader Ed Seykota, who turned $5,000 into $15 million over a period of 12 years, ... - that is, determining how much money you will risk on any single given trade - to the overall ... same time? It is all about position-sizing - how much money you are willing to bet on each trade [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 04:05:22
Forex Trading- Size is Key to Survival
by singapore trader reports The well-known commodities trader Ed Seykota, who turned $5,000 into $15 million over a period of 12 years, was teaching a form in technical trading to a college class many years ago when he decided ... of any trader's trading plan. He told his class they were going to compete in a trading contest [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 01:42:08
Get to Know More about Global Commodities Alert: GCA with Kevin Kerr
As a trader, especially a commodity trader, you may not tell me that you did not hear about the name Kevin Kerr. Usually appears on such shows as Cavuto on Fox, Kudlow & Co. on CNBC, The Daily [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 06:14:16
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
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
What are Hedge Funds
In the securities world, the term "Hedge Fund" does not necessarily imply any use of "hedging" as commonly understood; for example where commodity traders use options to "hedge" a commodity position. Presently, in the securities world the term "hedge fund" refers to any type of Private Investment Company operating [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 22:27:00
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
Commodities Signal Deepening Recession; Traders `Scared to Death’ of Worse
Commodities Send Sell Signal Before Long Recession By Millie Munshi Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) — A record plunge in commodities may signal the U.S. is headed for the longest recession since 1981, just after Ronald Reagan became president and the economy began a 16-month slump [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 13:51:17
The House of Atreus
I watch him, through the French terrace doors in the living room, as he ambles across the sidewalk and up the limestone steps of my still unsold 1 ... at me as if to ask ‘hey, what am I, chopped…?’ I’ve written about this guy before, a derivatives trader ... commodities, like cars and lottery tickets. Things I can more easily relate to. “Kind of a Moose [more...]
Date: 2008-11-16 17:08:49
As global economy slows, visions of $80 oil grow
As global economy slows, visions of $80 oil grow Posted Aug 31st 2008 4:30PM by Joseph Lazzaro Filed under: Forecasts, Good news, Commodities, ... holdings in raw materials through the Standard & Poor's GSCI Index, a commodity gauge weighted ... , as institutional investors and traders sense that the great bull run in commodities is at least pausing [more...]
Date: 2008-08-31 21:05:31
Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine applied to ANWR!
Naomi Klein has a great new article up on her website called Look Out, that is worth a read ... from this approach. First, trying to psych out hyperactive commodity traders is what passes for governing ... economics but on market psychoanalysis: drilling would “send a message” to the oil traders [more...]
Date: 2008-07-10 16:00:03
Big Producers Demand Big Share of Shrunken Bonus Pie
Reap what you sow. Over the last 20 years, the ever-aggressive Wall Street culture has moved even further towards prizing, and paying for, ... losses, a small group of Wall Street traders on commodities, currencies and interest-rate trading desks have made huge profits for the banks that employ them. That is setting up a scramble as traders [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 04:33:16
Santa is the Latest to Demand Bailout
NORTH POLE, December 24, 2008 -- Rumors that Santa Claus may be the latest and most high-profile victim of the worldwide credit crisis sent world ... are so vast that they are exposed to just about every commodity and currency on earth. Others say Santa ... of commodity and currency swings," one trader said. "Any sensible person in his position would [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 21:33:20
Andrew Wilshire
Mr.Andrew Wilshire began his own Investment Newsletter in 1997 and has been generating market predictions/analyses for several large commodity traders. I certainly did not know him but I’m pretty much sure a lot of people knows who he is. To those who doesn’t know about him, Mr. Wilshire grew his venture from a small Financial Newsletter [more...]
Date: 2008-07-03 18:46:16
Links 12/2/08
Swimming swans push up the cost of the 12 Days of Christmas Guardian. No deflation here ... with quantitative easing Marshall Auerbach, Credit Writedowns Commodity Pay Falls Faster Than Oil as Goldman, Funds Retrench Bloomberg. So much for the idea that commodity traders needed good bonuses to keep [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 07:10:43
Are You FOREXED OFF WITH YOUR BROKER?
by Singapore Trading Report The legendary commodities trader Ed Seykota, who turned $5,000 into $15 million over a period of 12 years, ... success of any trader’s trading plan. Looking for that Great Forex Broker He told his class they were ... was teaching a course in technical trading to a college class many years ago when he decided [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 10:02:16
Fox: Drill! Drill! Drill! Corporate Media in Action
If you've ever wondered precisely what "corporate media" means, I've got a quintessential example for you right here. Yesterday (July 7, 2008) ... and Bolling, presented as an objective reporter, who is "also a commodities trader on the New York ... stands to gain. Here are some of the money quotes: Bolling: "I'd like to stand up and say this right [more...]
Date: 2008-07-08 15:29:19
Forex Trading, Making Money,
by Singapore Trading Report The legendary commodities trader Ed Seykota, who turned $5,000 into $15 million over a period of 12 years, ... success of any trader’s trading plan. Looking for that Great Forex Broker He told his class they were ... was teaching a course in technical trading to a college class many years ago when he decided [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 10:05:41
Tell Me About Forex Scalping
Trading on the Foreign Exchange market, or forex, has become increasingly popular due in no small part to its sheer size and volume of trading ... Forex investment strategies and at its simplest involves anticipating short-term movements ... in the Forex. Just as with equities or commodities traders, investors in the Forex need some type [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 18:58:00
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
Carnival of Contemptibles (by Don Boudreaux)
Jonah Goldberg's column in today's New York Post is excellent. Here's a snippet: Never mind that there's no evidence "speculators" - i.e. commodity traders - are doing anything to increase the price of oil. They aren't hoarding it; no one's cornering the market. The speculators make money when the price goes down, and they make money [more...]
Date: 2008-07-16 10:26:56
Further reading
Elsewhere on Wednesday, - "Treasurys are clearly the belle of the investment ball." - The model made me do it. - The M&A buyers' market. - Surprised there's a recession? - "If the TARP were a private company, it would have a Sarbanes-Oxley problem." - Commodity traders' pay falling faster than oil prices...... [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 08:08:54
FIND THE BEST ONLINE FOREX BROKER
by Singapore Trading Report The legendary commodities trader Ed Seykota, who turned $5,000 into $15 million over a period of 12 years, ... success of any trader’s trading plan. Looking for that Great Forex Broker He told his class they were ... was teaching a course in technical trading to a college class many years ago when he decided [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 09:59:11
Coalition of big consumers of oil blames speculators for high prices
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Speculation by financial traders is causing a substantial boost in crude oil prices, according to a group of big consumers of oil now asking Congress to impose limits on commodity ... what he called “physical traders” such as airlines and the trucking industry. –From CNN’s Paul Courson [more...]
Date: 2008-07-11 17:59:33
THE BEST ONLINE FOREX BROKER
by Singapore Trading Report The legendary commodities trader Ed Seykota, who turned $5,000 into $15 million over a period of 12 years, ... success of any trader’s trading plan. Looking for that Great Forex Broker He told his class they were ... was teaching a course in technical trading to a college class many years ago when he decided [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 10:10:57
Is the "Commodity Super Cycle" Dead or Alive?
Tens of thousands of traders piled into the commodities markets in recent years, attracting nearly $280 billion, bidding-up everything for crude oil to corn, coal to soybeans, and silver to sugar [more...]
Date: 2008-08-20 23:16:27
Brian Hunter Rides Volatility In Commodities To Profits
brianhuntersuedcftc.jpg For much of the credit crisis, commodities traders had an easy time of it by going long energy ... , is advising the Peak Ridge Commodity Volatility Fund. According to Bloomberg the fund clocked in a 24 [more...]
Date: 2008-08-12 14:13:57
TRANSITION TRACKER: Before Eric Holder Becomes Attorney General Let’s Hear More About the Mark Rich Pardon
The widely-reported selection of Eric Holder as Barack Obama’s Attorney General represents another Clinton-era retread and calls into question ... is his involvement with the Clinton pardon of billionaire fugitive Marc Rich. Rich was the commodities trader who fled the country in 1983 to escape prosecution for tax evasion, racketeering, and trading [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 21:43:15
Santa Claus demands massive bailout
By Alex R. Dahl Special to TV Barn NORTH POLE, December 24, ... operations are so vast that they are exposed to just about every commodity and currency on earth. Others ... at the mercy of commodity and currency swings," one trader said. "Any sensible person in his position [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 15:22:02
NYT's Krugman: Speculators schmeculators - demand is pushing oil higher, not traders
Filed under: International markets, Commodities, OilOne of the major economic debates on Main Street and in Washington concerns the influence of ... -- driven it higher than a level the commodity would trade at if the price were based solely on supply ... a commodity's price can rise a great deal, without the influence of speculators. His evidence: iron [more...]
Date: 2008-07-01 17:34:00
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
Truckers’ strike hits Mizoram
Aizawl, Jan 09 Nation-wide strike by truckers hit Mizoram hard with the common people facing the scarcity of essential commodities brought from ... and the stocks are dwindling, Mizofed filling station employees here said. Traders said the stocks of essential commodities like rice, potato, dal and other items would last only a few days and they were [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 17:36:27
Make Money in the Stock Market- Don’t Get Bucked Off the Bull!
We all saw the traders feast on the 5 day rally last week, ... valuable lesson Position-Sizing: The Key to Survival The legendary commodities trader Ed Seykota ... you will risk on any single given trade – to the overall success of any trader’s trading plan. He told [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 03:00:04
Mini Forex Trading: Lesser Stakes, Greater Possibilities
Forex trading is one of the most viable options for someone who’s looking at bigger possibilities, ... , a trader can trade in a commodity more than the money available in his account. Say with a $250 deposit ... , you get to enjoy free trading platform and benefits that regular forex traders get to enjoy. These would [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 12:49:38
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
Asian Session - Market Hits a Summer Pause
Market Brief Usd consolidated in Asian session, as the current environment paints a mixed picture creating indecision in traders ... trades followed a similar pattern. Commodity bloc ccy’s continued to hold up despite general pullback in commodity prices. AudUsd was able to rally off the 0.9680 [more...]
Date: 2008-07-18 09:00:31
Morning Wrap
Obama's Picks: In this late post on the BLT, Joe Palazzolo reports that President-elect Barack Obama is expected to announce soon the nomination of ... to focus his inquiry on three areas: the pardon of fugitive commodities trader Marc Rich; the decision [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 13:21:16
Commodity Day Trading - 3 Useful Tips For Traders
What does one do if one wants to achieve something in life? One charts out an action plan to reach that goal ... in commodity day trading, is successful transactions that bring huge profits. Unfortunately, many like you fail ... , it is necessary to define what exactly a commodity means.Commodity = It is any item that is offered [more...]
Date: 2008-11-08 19:16:00
Thursday’s Mini-Report
Today’s edition of quick hits. * The U.S. economy has lost jobs for six months in a row: ... Oil prices raced above $145 a barrel for the first time Thursday as traders added to their bets on the commodity ahead of the long holiday weekend.” * If you haven’t read the story about how, exactly [more...]
Date: 2008-07-03 21:30:36
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
Fisher: Silly interest rate talk
Does anyone really think that the Federal Reserve is going to be raising short-term interest rates anytime soon? ... commodity traders will become when that first quarter-point rate hike comes and the price of oil doesn't [more...]
Date: 2008-06-10 22:51:00
Impetus ranks among Top 15 in GSMA 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition - APAC Tournament
/India PRwire/ - Impetus Technologies (www.impetus.com) ... commodity trading application which is its flagship offering in the Indian Rural VAS market. The application is targeted towards farmers and agricultural commodity traders who need updated information [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 13:15:39
Short Everything?
Rob Curran has this report on what may be in store for the rest of this year. The inverse relationship of financial and commodity stocks is breaking down, and traders say the two sectors are now primed to go down together, likely taking the Standard & Poor’s 500 back [more...]
Date: 2008-08-19 14:10:35
Monday News Roundup
Monday News Roundup Written by Mike on January 5th, 2009 January 1st was the 100th birthday of our beloved Barry Goldwater, ... . In addition to Eric Holder (who greased the pardon of corrupt commodities trader Marc Rich while serving [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 14:48:44
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