Global Carnage In Pictures

I talked about the Sea of Red except for gold an government bonds earlier today in Treasuries and Gold Rise as Global Credit Freeze Prompts More ... Grain Futures Softs Futures Metals Futures Meat And Dairy Futures Currency Futures ... click on chart for sharper image Future Tables are Courtesy of Barchart Commodities. Government [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 19:41:01

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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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Elite Trader,Chech this site out/CRWE.OB

Become a Member -  Help -  Search Member Login Username: Password: Welcome to Elite Trader, the #1 community for active traders of Stocks, Futures, Options, and Currencies. Although anyone ... advice thinkorswim Not Impressed thinkorswim Doesn’t Merit The Hype TransAct Futures [more...]

Date: 2008-07-30 16:48:03

FutureGame Brings Stock Market Streak Games to Facebook

Don’t let the name fool you. This game is nothing like what you might think ... , Facebook game FutureGame does technically deal with the future, just not the distant future. It’ ... whether a particular stock, currency, or commodity will go up or down in the next 30 seconds. That’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 15:01:42

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

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

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

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

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

Roubini: Restructure Fannie, Freddie Debt, Skip "Mother of All Bailouts"

Nouriel Roubini has consistently been accurate in predicting the course of our snowballing credit crisis, and has also made some important intellectual contributions to the discussion. such as how the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system has lessons for the future of our Bretton Woods 2 currency [more...]

Date: 2008-07-12 08:10:12

News Roundup: Geojit and Jhunjhunwala Set Up Commodities Broking Firm

Tata Capital Plans to Raise Rs 500 Crore for its PE Business - Non banking financial company, ... interface (API) from NSE for its currency futures segment. In fact Omnesys made a fresh allotment [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 04:11:01

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

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

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

Stock Market Dictionary - K

KFifth letter of a Nasdaq stock symbol specifying the issue has no voting rights ... and options exchange for no. 2 red wheat futures and, options, Value Line Index futures and Mini Value Line ... and Financial Futures ExchangeKLSESee: Kuala Lumpur Stock ExchangeKMFThe ISO 4217 currency code [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 16:42:00

What's Up, What's Down: Crude Oil Down Sharply Along with Heating Oil, RBOB, and Natural Gas

Oil and gas are down across the board, see how other commodities and currencies futures are expected to perform today, including cattle, pork, orange juice, and gold. [more...]

Date: 2008-07-08 03:17:00

Daily Report for Mon, Oct 27, 2008

The crisis in global equity, commodity and currency markets worsened overnight ... ) as an indicator. US equity futures have come off their earlier lows. ADDENDUM Links & Charts ... is sinking as are prices on the European bourses; the US equity markets may open with futures locked [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 10:13:05

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

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

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

Markets are in absolute freefall

The news on markets around the world is particularly dire this morning. Despite a late day rally in the U.S., markets in Asia and Europe are down as much as 9 and 10% and S&P Futures are 60 limit down ... 3%, agricultural commodities are down, and all currencies are getting killed against the dollar excep [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 10:49:05

Are We Courting a Populist Backlash?

The government is doing a lousy job helping distressed homeowners. And according to John Dugan, the Comptroller of the Currency, the little that's been done ... disappear. They're worried about the future and about their kids' futures. They never expected [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 22:51:00

Hans Sennholz: In Living Color on the Monetary Writings of Carl Menger

As readers of the blog know, my undergraduate teacher and mentor was Dr. Hans Sennholz ... ).  Sennholz was a critic of the world fiat currency system.  And in other books, such as Debts ... successful), I was dating my future wife and life partner, and I found my "calling" with economic argument [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 14:24:02

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

Gold prices falter as dollar strengthens

Gold prices declined Friday, as the dollar gained further strength against other major currencies, including the euro and the British pound. Energy prices recovered some, while agriculture futures fell. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 22:55:55

Fed Preparing For Another Interest Rate Cut

With inflation concerns now being trumped by the fear of deflation, and the economy still struggling, ... Fund futures are pricing in a tiny chance of a 75bp rate cut next month. The housing market ... currency pairs have been consolidating since the middle of last week and the FOMC minutes could [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 16:38:19

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

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

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

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

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

Oil rises above $58 on heating oil, gas futures

Light, sweet crude for December delivery gained 60 cents to $58.20 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Jim Ritterbusch, president of energy consultants Ritterbusch and Associates, said oil prices have been driven recently by equity and currency markets, but it appears some fundamentals are now driving price movement [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 19:10:24

Currency Swapping: Hotter Than Wife Swapping?

OK, so the post title is idiotic (but catchy!) I can explain the former, though the latter is beyond the scope of this blog's coverage ... for a foreign currency at the prevailing exchange rate to help tide over its current FX funding needs. At an agreed date, the process is reversed, with the future exchange rate determined by the interest [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 10:56:00

Interview: Linden prepares for an OpenSim future

SECOND LIFE, July 10 (Reuters) - A future where the Second Life Grid is a minor player in a sprawling Metaverse of thousands of competing virtual ... Linden earns token sums from fees on its LindeX virtual currency exchange and other activities ... for Linden Lab is that its monopoly is about to end. Linden Lab put Second Life’s viewer software [more...]

Date: 2008-07-11 17:46:20

Who is Behind the Financial Meltdown? by Michel Chossudovsky

on current Dandelion Salad by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, October 11, ... . There are several instruments including futures, options, index funds, derivative securities, etc. used ... Stearns was in part due to short selling. Short selling has also been used extensively in currency [more...]

Date: 2008-10-12 01:47:33

Commodities and currencies should continue mixed and sidelined

Overview Turmoil in the credit markets and the ECB adds to woes by suggesting it will raise its key rate by 25 basis points at July’s meeting. Euribor interest rate futures promptly dropped 25 points, with the December 2008 contract pricing three-month Libor at 5.525%, dragging Sterling, Swiss and US money market contracts down too [more...]

Date: 2008-06-12 06:52:54

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

Bullion metals shine

Gold and silver prices rise for the first time in 2009After three sessions of fall, bullion metal prices ended higher on Tuesday, 06 January, ... %.On Tuesday, Comex silver futures for March delivery rose 15.5 cents (1.6%) to $11.445 an ounce. Last week, silver has gained 9%. For 2008, silver lost 24%.At the currency market on Tuesday, the dollar [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 04:03:00

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

The New Currency

Now that the Winter Meetings are over and the Indians have addressed what they felt was their biggest need in the bullpen with the acquisitions of ... of the nation’s economy and it’s short-and-long-term future. With that mind-set (allegedly) finding [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 03:46:00

Jaguar: A Cautionary Tale for Future GM/Chrysler Buyers

By John Tamny RealClearMarkets With England's economy gasping in the mid 1970s due to a combination of nosebleed rates of taxation and a currency in freefall,... This is a content summary only [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 13:17:13

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

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