Investment Bankers = Carbon Traders: Entrusted With Earth's Future?
financial trading desk cap and trade photo Trust In The Speculator Class Eroded We've all read about the world's financial system collapsing, ... the dynamic of the US Presidential election: all triggered by "derivatives" trading schemes enabled ... people that caused the banking system melt down - promoting and utilizing unregulated systems [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 15:28:01
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The New Way To Wealth: Online Options Trading
by Walter Fox Are you one of these people that are struggling to get ahead financially? Desire financial freedom? ... success in futures and options trading online. They are finding success without even leaving their house ... you will have the opportunity to learn the basics of options trading systems and much more. It may seem baffling at first [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 10:45:15
FACTBOX: Major U.S. financial oversight agencies face reforms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The incoming Obama administration looks likely to shake up the federal agencies that regulate the U.S ... auditors. About 3,500 employees. Formed in 1934. * Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Oversees commodity and financial futures. About 490 employees. Formed in 1974. (Reporting by Kevin Drawbaugh [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 23:44:40
Oil executives: "What do they know?"
The spectacle of an industry lobbyist decrying the prospects of increased regulation is very much dog-bites-man, as far as news value goes ... of the Futures Industry Association, in a five-minute video snippet produced by the Financial Times ... Futures Trading Commission staffer Michael Greenberger, the United States currently allows exchanges owned [more...]
Date: 2008-06-11 14:58:36
Safe Harbor for Prediction Markets?
As everyone who has read The Wisdom of the Crowds knows, prediction markets are excellent predictors of future events like elections ... Professor John McGinnis reports, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is recognizing the benefits ... , exempting them from cumbersome financial trading laws. As McGinnis argues, creating such an exception would [more...]
Date: 2008-07-11 19:29:49
Two Bright Spots in the Economic Darkness!
Since there’s all of the bad news being pumped out there daily by the media…I thought it might be refreshing to talk about two of the bright spots ... of an environment then you obviously feel strongly about your financial future. That company? T.D. ... ) ...trading just over a buck a share!). Ameritrade will also benefit from the expansion [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 17:38:53
Veteran regulator Mary Schapiro tapped to lead SEC - MarketWatch
Obama picks Mary Schapiro for SEC chief -Former Goldman Sachs official Gensler to head CFTC By Ronald D. Orol, MarketWatch Last update: 2:27 p.m ... and former Treasury undersecretary Gary Gensler to run the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, which regulates trading in the commodities markets. 'Financial regulatory reform will be a top priority [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 21:04:20
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
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
Gaming and Investing
A new online game has been brought to my attention, it’s called Wall Street Survivor, ... with a simulated, risk-free platform designed to help individuals take control of their financial futures. Utilizing the web’s sophisticated trading simulation engine, Wall Street Survivor enables users [more...]
Date: 2008-10-28 14:52:38
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
Online Options Trading: Your Ticket To Financial Freedom
by Walter Fox Are you sick of hustling trying to get ahead of the game financially? ... work? As a matter of fact, many of them have experimented with futures and online options trading ... options trading systems is not rocket science. The conception of it may seem puzzling, but do not allow [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 13:48:05
Personal Finance Blog Tickers
Sometimes, in talking to people, I refer to Blueprint for Financial Prosperity as BFP ... , financial and reputational issues that shape their futures.” It’s traded on the NYSE and is down ... and development of gold and silver deposits in Mexico and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange. It’ [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 20:54:12
NY Times: Lehman Filing For Bankruptcy (Update: Gross Sees "Tsunami")
Hat tip readers dd and viv on this update from the New York Times' Dealbook: Lehman will seek to place its parent company, Lehman Brothers Holdings, ... support. Update 6:55 PM Reader Jim Bianco e-mailed this observation on the futures trading: It’ ... the financial backstop would be. Lehman’s broker-deal subsidiaries would not be a part of the [more...]
Date: 2008-09-14 22:53:26
Wall Street Survivor - Virtual Stock Portfolios
A new online game has been brought to my attention, it's called Wall Street Survivor, ... with a simulated, risk-free platform designed to help individuals take control of their financial futures. Utilizing the web’s sophisticated trading simulation engine, Wall Street Survivor enables users to build [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 14:17:00
Barack Obama chooses Mary Shapiro to Chair the SEC
In one of President-elect Barack Obama's first moves into sorting out the mess of the financial industry in America, ... Futures Trading Commission in 1994. Her private interests include directorships at Duke Energy ... Investor Education Foundation, the largest foundation in the U.S. dedicated to investor education [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 06:46:50
Other Markets (2)
Most of these exchanges operate on basically the same principle as the stock exchanges, ... of futures, for example, is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) rather than ... , today’s computers and dedicated financial media are so broad that information on any [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 08:43:51
Reassessing Roubini's Predictions
Unfortunately for Roubini, there is no Nobel Prize in Economic for being the best predictor of global financial markets ... , Nouriel predicted the potential shutdown of financial markets. A day later U.S. stock futures suspended trading after declines of more than 6% at opening tripped the circuit breakers. Nonetheless [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 08:05:00
The Woman Who Could Have Prevented This Financial Mess Was Silenced by Greenspan, Rubin and Summers
By Katrina vanden Heuvel, TheNation.com. Posted October 11, 2008 ... of, Brooksley Born, head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — a federal agency that regulates options and futures trading — was the oracle whose warnings about the dangerous boom in derivatives [more...]
Date: 2008-10-12 15:13:00
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
DC’s Cosa Nostra
Judah Freed of examiner.com writes~ “Obama last week tapped Mary Schapiro to lead the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ... Gensler to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Instability in the commodities markets ... financial advisor to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Gensler has not yet shown to critics [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 06:54:25
Secondary Markets
Financial institutions play a key role in matching primary market players who need money with those who have extra funds, ... ), the Chicago Board of Trade (the CBOT trades futures and options), and the Tokyo Stock Exchange ... of an outcry auction is the CBOT, where traders actually meet in a pit and sellers and buyers [more...]
Date: 2008-11-28 00:53:36
Take Control of Your Finances Part 1-C: Make Accurate Predictions
Now that you’ve taken an inventory of your finances and determined your net worth, I can tell you that the number is meaningless ... worth is $100,000. Am I in good financial shape, poised well for the future? It’s impossible to say ... by trading their time and effort. I give eight hours of my day, five days each week, as well [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 13:30:20
How Main Street Will Quickly Feel The Fallout From Wall Street
In case you didn't think you'd feel the effects of the Wall Street meltdown in the short-term, you would be wrong: ... as investors dashed into commodities on concerns about the government’s plan to bail out the financial system. After a wild last hour of trading, crude oil futures surged as high as $130 a barrel before [more...]
Date: 2008-09-22 23:48:06
Seasonal slump hits futures exchanges
Trading volumes at two of the world’s largest financial futures exchanges fell at the end of last year, highlighting the end of multiple years of record-breaking runs [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 04:08:29
Market Mayhem Watch: Fear and Greed
Guido can't resist and is now actively trading once again in financial markets, attracted by the blood on the streets of New York and London ... to financial futures, foreign exchange and commodities rather than individual stocks. Have an aversion [more...]
Date: 2008-09-22 08:29:41
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
Sex and Money: Are Women Different?
Sex and Money: Are Women Different? Dean Baker, writing in TruthOut “It is hard not to notice that two of the regulators who stand out for doing the right thing in this incredible financial mess are women. Brooksley Born, as chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under President Clinton, wanted to regulate credit default swaps [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 13:23:25
Sex and Money: Are Women Regulators Different?
It is hard not to notice that two of the regulators who stand out for doing the right thing in this incredible financial mess are women. Brooksley Born, as chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under President Clinton, wanted to regulate credit default swaps and other derivative instruments back in the late 90s [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 06:15:45
Getting ahead with your trading in 2009
Dear trader and blog reader, One of the things I have always enjoyed is sharing what I know with others ... Mercantile Exchange in Chicago, Index and Options Market(IOM) Chicago, New York Futures Exchange (NYFE) and The London Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE). Adam is the author of “Right on the Money [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 10:00:34
No terror impact, Indian equities still in green
Despite a general nervousness pervading the investor community due to the global financial and economic meltdown, ... Thursday, the monthly settlement of futures and options trade had to be deferred to Friday. This also [more...]
Date: 2008-11-28 09:55:59
Al-Fayed And His Money Are Soon Parted
This January Transfer Window promises to be the most unusual (and analytically complex) ... that persuaded the Dietrological Trading Team to establish the Holistic Sabermetrics Project ... financial system and its effect on future transfer windows; the impact of the Recession/Depression [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 13:49:00
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
Should Mary Schapiro save the SEC or shut it down?
Mary Schapiro, reported to be the President-elect's choice to run the Securities and Exchange Commission, ... . She's been chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. She's currently CEO of the Financial [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 04:05:40
4 Links I liked:
4 Links I liked: Posted November 7th, 2008 by itrade4real Financial bonds business commodities corn dollar ETF finance futures gold loss markets Money profit risk stock trading treasury Wheat Read the full article: http://www.itrade4real.com/2008/11/links-i-liked.html10vote Our catalyst today is the payroll data at 8:30 am. Not much [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 13:46:45
“I have found a flaw”
Searching the Web for overviews of our current financial crisis — accounts of how we got to where we are — I came across two very useful and ... important challenge was that posed by derivatives. In 1998 the head of the Commodity Futures Trading ... of the causes of the crisis in Vanity Fair. Some choice Stiglitz quotes: As we stripped back the old [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 07:02:14
Technical Picture - Consolidation Ahead of FED
Stocks sold off in early trade as investors grappled with ongoing uncertainty and the threat of more losses from the financial sector, ... funds futures imply a reduction to the fed funds target rate is certain. There is currently a 66 ... in commodities such as agchem, natural gas, gold, and crude oil. Crude was up as much as 8.2% during [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 06:16:00
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
Technical Picture - Consolidation Ahead of FED
Stocks sold off in early trade as investors grappled with ongoing uncertainty and the threat of more losses from the financial sector, ... funds futures imply a reduction to the fed funds target rate is certain. There is currently a 66 ... in commodities such as agchem, natural gas, gold, and crude oil. Crude was up as much as 8.2% during [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 07:00:16
Some Opening Comments October 8 2008
Prices of Treasury coupon securities are surging as the turmoil in the world financial markets deepens and resists the best laid plans of ... . European markets are down between 4 percent and 6 percent. Trading in equity futures indicates that the US markets will tumble sharply at the outset if trading were to begin now. The UK government crafted [more...]
Date: 2008-10-08 11:12:20
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
No Shame Crowd Deserves the Gulag
Good Evening: The news flow that affected our capital markets today actually started last night when Fed Ex and Texas Instruments posted negative ... joined this morning by Con-Way freight. U.S. stock index futures were under pressure for most ... were down 2% to 5% with 90 minutes to go in the trading session. Word that the financial aid package [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 02:00:12
Perspective- We Ain’t Got It.
Obama’s presser: I am fierce advocate for equality for gay and—well, let me start by talking about my own views ... of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, to serve as chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He appointed former Treasury official Gary Gensler to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 18:26:05
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
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
Obama Appoints Mary Schapiro
Barack Obama has named Financial Industry Regulatory Authority chief executive Mary Schapiro as chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Schapiro is a former SEC commissioner who also headed the commodity futures trading commission and is now the head of Finra, which inspects U.S. brokerage firms, writes rules for those selling [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 17:47:01
Could This Be The Future of Austrian Economists?
A blogger in South Korea has been arrested for spreading "false economic information over the internet ... for Park following Saturday's court hearing, said the case "affected foreign exchange markets ... site last month that the government had ordered major financial institutions and trade businesses [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 19:47:56
Financials Got You Down? CME Pitches Credit-Default Swaps the Safer Way
The market for credit-default swaps is huge–$55 trillion–but was largely unknown to most of the populace until the downfall of Bear Stearns and the ... Mercantile Exchange that handles the bulk of U.S. futures trading. CME is trying to capitalize on the chaos in the market by grabbing more trading from broker-dealers like Goldman Sachs Group, Morgan [more...]
Date: 2008-10-09 16:35:40
A personal letter from Satan to Henry Paulson
January 6, 2009 — Stefan Fobes A Personal Letter from Satan to Henry Paulson3.31 ... of all financial instruments and assets at the close of the trading day, as is currently done with commodities futures and stock options the banning of “off balance sheet” accounting the banning of offshore [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 16:38:26
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
