Using Options to Define and Limit Risk (pfblogs.org)

Jack Walker submits:Here is a contrarian idea to consider in the financial sector using options to help define and limit the risk:Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (IBKR) 24.19. a Greenwich, Connecticut based IB serves both ... services. It engages in order routing, executing and trade processing for equities, futures [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 12:59:13

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Stocks in Europe, Asia Decline, Led by Banks; U.S. Futures Fall

By Adam Haigh Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) — Stocks in Europe and Asia declined for a second day, ... analysts who study charts of trading patterns. Stocks in Europe and futures on the S&P 500 recouped ... led by commodity producers and financial companies on concern the deepening recession will erode [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 13:44:57

Quotes of the day

Quotes of the day My cold having gone, like all my colds, directly to my chest, ... the trading floor (and with a Bloomberg!) for the past 2 weeks, let me just say: things are very bad, and only getting worse. I'm honestly scared for the future of the financial system. How did [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 01:50:42

Welcome to the Finance Fiesta, buzzer-beater edition

(70 minutes left until Thursday’s over) Hi, everyone!  Welcome to this week’s Finance Fiesta! ... your financial future.) (47 minutes) Taking Charge ruminates on the 50th anniversary of the credit card.  (For bonus points, what was the first credit card issued?) (45 minutes) My Simple Trading System [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 03:51:08

Menahem-Mendl on Wall Street

Sholom Aleichem on Financial Meltdown by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)   In Did Financial Deregulation Serve the Neocons' Hidden Agenda? ... of the economy, in illicit speculation in commodity futures, or the infamous "trading in the wind [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 13:37:00

CME Owners Bracing For Earnings (CME)

CME Group Inc. (NYSE: CME) is set to report earnings after the close of trading today. The futures and commodities exchange giant estimates (from First Call) are $3.98 EPS and $644.3 million in revenues. Exchanges and financial companies do not offer guidance, but next quarter [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 14:47:34

Obama takeover augurs financial regulator shakeup

By Kevin Drawbaugh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress will take over the government this month with big ... and chiefs for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 23:44:40

Hamilton ~ Negative real rates drive Gold bull

by Adam Hamilton It's been a tough year for gold investors ... futures. Since gold has been the financial-panic asset of choice for centuries, its lackluster trading [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 23:36:22

Facing Crisis, Obama Moves Quickly to Fill Economic Posts

In the face of the deepening financial crisis and the largest Wall Street swindle in history, ... Gensler to lead the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. Gensler spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs before [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 16:33:51

Banks Tank, Yet Most Still Above 52-Week Lows (BAC, C, GS, JPM, MS, NTRS, USB, WFC)

This is obviously one of our ugliest mornings in years with futures trading limit down ... and panic selling days. These are just the stronger banks and financial firms that are deemed [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 12:44:48

Obama Selects Three Financial Regulators

Getty He names Mary Schapiro as SEC head, Daniel Tarullo to the Federal Reserve Board and Gary Gensler as Commodity Futures Trading Commission head during Thursday presser. Mentions Wall Street [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 14:10:17

Facing crisis, Obama moves quickly to fill economic posts

In the face of the deepening financial crisis and the largest Wall Street swindle in history, ... Gensler to lead the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. Gensler spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 17:29:30

Four at Four: Sell on Jan. 2 and Go Away?

For those who hinge their outlook on the year on its first few trading days, ... of Voorhees, NJ-based Ameriway Financial Services. VIX The trend in the Chicago Board Options ... a little more easily. Action in the near-term futures, however, shows the era of good feelings may [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 12:19:00

Coping With Challenging Markets By Hedging Your Bets: Financial and Personal

Dear Readers, It really has been an amazing time; I've traded the equity markets since late 1977, ... quantitative ones: when negativity is pervasive, it affects future decision-making, with self-fulfilling ... from a leveraged world to a deleveraged one, as credit is unwound throughout the financial system, from banks [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 12:23:29

Green Ink: Detroit Gets Greener, Will Jobs?

paper Crude futures peeked above $100 on rebounding stock markets and signs of financial-market stability, Bloomberg reports ... markets, the WSJ reports (sub reqd.), with question marks over commodities trades made with Lehman [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 12:18:37

Hourly Action In Gold From Trader Dan

Dear CIGAs, Today’s action in nearly every single market that trades can best be described by one phrase – “It’s all about the Fed”. Their decision to basically print as much money as needed to liquefy the financial system ... as if we have been here before. Budget deficits into the future as far as the eye can see coupled with free [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 18:49:34

Stock futures mixed ahead of auto sales data (AP)

Traders react as they eye financial charts and data on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday Jan. 2, 2009 ... proceeded warily into the first full week of 2009, trading mixed in premarket activity Monday ahead ... in light holiday trading (AP) AP - Wall Street rose modestly in light holiday trading...European stocks [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 12:00:27

STOCK FUTURES MIXED AHEAD OF AUTO SALES DATA (AP)

Traders react as they eye financial charts and data on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday Jan. 2, 2009 ... proceeded warily into the first full week of 2009, trading mixed in premarket activity Monday ahead [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 12:00:27

Stock futures mixed ahead of auto sales data (AP)

Traders react as they eye financial charts and data on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday Jan. 2, 2009 ... proceeded warily into the first full week of 2009, trading mixed in premarket activity Monday ahead [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 12:00:27

Oil Prices Hit Eight-Week Low

Oil prices fell to an eight-month low below $90 a barrel Monday on speculation that the spreading financial crisis will exacerbate a global economic ... was down $4.03 to $89.85 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Earlier ... $3.64 to $86.61 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange. Oil prices have tumbled nearly 40 percent [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 12:40:31

The Financial Proposals At Poznan

The ongoing global climate negotiations in the Polish town of Poznan are all about financing, insiders say. So what proposals are on the table? ... the system more effective. Insiders in CDM trading circles are lobbying for new rules to judge projects ... A roundup of some headline generating plans: The future of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 13:49:17

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