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

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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

Bombay Stock Exchange gets SEBI nod for currency derivatives

Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has received “in-principle approval” from market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) ... Committee on Exchange Traded Currency Futures, released by the Reserve Bank of India and SEBI May 29 ... currency futures contracts facilitate easy access, increased transparency, efficient price discovery [more...]

Date: 2008-08-29 07:29:46

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

Thinkorswim- The Best Brokerage

by Walter Fox A time when the financial institutions because of their harsh conditions easily was not getting credit ... categories including equities, the fund currency, bonds, futures trading of mutual funds can help ... . More and more people jumped into the competition, introduction of online options trading systems. They are aware [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 17:17:10

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

Interest Rate Risk Exposure

Interest rate exposure refers to the interest rate differential between the two countries' currencies in a foreign exchange contract ... conditions:* 2 pips spread on six currency pairs.* Providing online trading services without maintenance ... or futures contract. As a side note, arbitragers are investors that take advantage when interest [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 19:58:00

MMTC to buy 15% stake in 4th currency futures exchange

Country`s largest public sector trading agency MMTC is entering to partnership with 4th currency futures exchange and it will invest Rs 225 million ... Capital Services. Jaypee Capital, formed by Jaypee Commodities, will be the single-largest [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 07:25:47

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

Asian Markets Advance Higher

Nikkei, Sydney consolidate gains while Shanghai, Strait Times manages lower closingStock markets across the Asian region advanced higher for a second ... , or 0.9%, to $40.20 a barrel on London's ICE Futures Europe exchange.In currency trading [more...]

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

6 Facts That Give Forex Traders An Edge

Trading currency markets is an excellent alternative for many reasons. Be it currency futures or spot market FX, TradingMarkets Contributor Austin Passamonte steer you away from pervasive myths and sheds light on the true benefits of both markets. [more...]

Date: 2008-08-29 00:52:00

Lottery System Development

I've been working on a lottery system based on intuition rather than the more common strategy of analaysing patterns or distributions in historical ... out by 2,3,4,...49 (use the modulus operator when the number goes above 49).From the world of trading ... can be used to forecast future price levels in many products, ranging from currencies to commodities [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 11:34:00

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

BEWARE Forex.com, Gain Capital Group

Gentlemen, I have been trading futures for a long time and decided to try Forex ... from clients! I never had similar problems in the futures arena, thank goodness. I am trying ten different ... spread on two currencies. This put me at a loss of $1400 from were I was four minutes ago [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 21:26:34

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

Adjustment Phase Will Reveal Skinny Dippers

A: As the first stage of the adjustment is underway in Manhattan, we get our first glimpse of who was swimming naked ... , bought on the currency trade with expectations to flip at a profit, or just scared about the future [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 15:58:30

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

UPDATE 1-Shikoku Elec shuts 450-mw oil-fired unit after fire

Japanese utility Shikoku Electric Power Co said on Monday it shut its 450-megawatt No ... lifts ban on export of wheat seeds September 9, 2008 — CURRENCY TRADING SUMMARY – 9th September 2008 ... on U.S. taxes- WSJ December 3, 2008 — S.Korea’s T-bond futures jump on official remark [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 07:21:12

Forex Demo Account

You can open the door to a new future by researching a forex demo account today. With this account you can actually learn about the foreign exchange market and how to trade currency. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 20:36:24

Probe starts on directors of CITIC Pacific

CITIC Pacific Ltd, predicting US$2.4 billion of losses from currency derivatives, said the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission is investigating its chairman and managing ... directors are not aware of any material adverse change in the financial or trading position of the group [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 10:21:34

Gold Investments Market Update - Geopolitical Risk Escalates and Will Lead to Further Safe Haven Demand

Gold has commenced the New Year as it did in 2008 – up sharply in early trading before selling off somewhat. Gold surged (along with oil) ... . Gold Price Rupees per ounce Indian gold futures MAUc1 gained more than 29 percent in 2008 ... currencies so far this morning, gold has given up its earlier gains. The reemergence of geopolitical [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 15:35:50

Get-Well Card from Central Banks Doesn't Cure the Underlying Ailment; Forex Remains Volatile (pfblogs.org)

Today’s coordinated cut in interest rates warmed the cockles of investors’ hearts as though they’d received a personal eCard from the world’s bankers, ... ;P futures reversed a 33-point gain before falling back in to the red once more in pre-market trading ... from six central banks. Since our last report, currency traders have increased demand for dollars [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 17:38:56

Mastering the Trade (McGraw-Hill Trader's Edge) (Hardcover)

by John F ... , options, ETFs, emini futures, 30 year bonds, Forex currency markets, and more Seven key internals [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 09:53:00

I'm Hurting

I'm Hurting by Steven D Fri Oct 24th, 2008 at 08:44: ... to be the currency of choice for cash hoarders. $1 is now worth around 93 yen. The dollar had been trading ... investors and sent world financial markets into a tailspin. The Dow Jones industrial average futures [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 12:48:13

Forex Trading: No Longer Just For Professionals

And wealth management firms have also grasped that playing the currency markets can save their clients money and add an additional slice of returns ... of the US-based financial services company Global Futures & Forex, offers private clients an online ... Stockbrokers, part of Barclays Wealth, the UKs biggest wealth management business, launched an on [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 05:15:09

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

Thinkorswim, The Best Broker

by Walter Fox There was a time when people have not been relaxed credit financial institutions because of its stringent conditions ... , its customers around the world. They are well-known consultants in the field of futures and options trading ... and found stock option trading and currency trading to be very fruitful. More people jumped into the fray [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 09:09:37

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

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