The Economy's Silver Lining(s)

Every single day we hear about new reasons to be sour on the market ... economic futures for all. In the gloom of a dire economic forecast, are there two reasons to be hopeful ... . Beyond this, most other commodites grain, wheat, corn, etc. have also plummetted. This causes everyone's [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 15:46:10

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Fresh Gourmet Coffee - Flavour You Can Count On

There is something special about coffee ... in the world? Coffee has become such an important commodity that it even has its own futures market among the ’soft commodities’. You can buy and sell coffee contracts and your results will be according [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 03:25:56

TheCramerReport.com's Mad Money Recap - January 5, 2009

Segment 1: Where are We Now? Cramer is back from vacation, and is looking ahead to 2009, ... problems looming in the future, but the market depends on Washington to get us back into a good place to invest. He is happy to see that commodity stocks were higher today, but thinks that we need Obama's [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 23:59:13

IB programmes in the Forex market

ForexGen IB programme is a great opportunity for both individuals and companies to receive commission for introducing their customers or contacts to ... services and training · Insurance companies · Successful traders on FOREX, stock, futures markets · Trading rooms · Investment or trading clubs · Stock brokerage or trading companies · Money managers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 20:32:00

As oil stays up, the target on speculators' backs gets bigger

Congress' current favorite definition of an Enemy of the State: ... commodities. Four different congressional committees are taking up the question of why oil is so high ... to limit speculation in energy-futures markets, four energy analysts told Congress." Do you believe [more...]

Date: 2008-06-24 03:18:41

Mean Street: John Mack’s Final Folly, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney

If there’s one thing that the recent history of Citi should have taught Wall Street, it’s that bigger is not necessarily better ... s 11,000 Smith Barney brokers and make Morgan Stanley the biggest, baddest retail broker on Wall ... . With a shrunken balance sheet and moribund markets, Morgan Stanley’s future looks awfully grim. If you’re CEO [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 19:28:00

New Year’s Resolutions

(1) Grow more corn. You always want to start off with a classic resolution like this, just to show you’re serious. (2) ... has not changed greatly over the last year, by this time the futures market for both crops has fallen so much [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 19:17:28

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

Volume trading

Hello everyone, I'm trading futures, mostly GC. I have a question. Does someone who trade also futures uses some software to track market volume? I mean the software such as Bloomberg or something.. I'd like to find people on this board who trade using volumes. I think together we could spread our thoughts to each other to make trading [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 22:36:04

Above the fold

A DAILY round-up of economic news: Get this, readers ... have soared. The TED spread fell 24% overnight. And futures indicate that American markets may ... . Trading resumed today after being suspended much of the week, and shares soared. The gains appear [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 14:42:03

The “MLS 5.0″ Manifesto: Everyone working in hi-tech real estate must oppose this vicious plan with every fiber in your being

“Oh that the Roman people had but one neck, that I might cut it off at a blow! ... of the future will bring a marketing service and benefit to the industry by being the single point of entry for listing data and then, based upon the election of the broker, distribute that information [more...]

Date: 2008-08-13 02:25:45

Links 6/27/08

The 'value' of protecting whales BBC Researchers study hidden homicide trend PhysOrg Boston Suburb's `Taj Mahal' Brings Ban on Luxury High ... . This is a very good post for those interested in oil and commodities futures markets generally. Antidote du [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 04:48:51

The Fed's rate at zero? It's no longer a far-fetched idea

Just a day after the Federal Reserve dropped its key short-term interest rate to 1% -- matching the generational low reached in 2003-04 -- the betting is intensifying on another cut. Trading in futures contracts on the federal funds rate ... , the probability of a cut to 0.50% was 32%. Fedfundschartoct29 At a minimum, the futures market expects [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 22:41:54

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

The Fed Shouldn’t Escape Blame for Investment Bubbles

If you haven’t noticed, gas prices are back down ... the credit mania and then compounded the felony with a commodity bubble and run on the dollar whose ... can be a problem. But if we want more stable markets in the future, we need to be sure to address [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 13:16:17

Will Mary Schapiro Lead a Merger of the SEC and CFTC?

With startling revelations (yesterday and today) ... , with the CFTC, created in 1974 to regulate commodities futures and options markets. Schapiro’s service ... might be her stint as the chair of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission during the Clinton [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 14:15:49

Closing Comments June 05 2008

Prices of Treasury coupon securities slipped in a lively session in advance of the monthly labor report tomorrow ... . The underperformance of the belly of the curve stemmed from a mini debacle in the swaps market. Swap ... ber Euribor futures are higher by 30 basis points while December 2008 and March 2009 contracts are hig [more...]

Date: 2008-06-05 20:14:41

It's Not The Cheese That Costs so Much

I admit that I can still be astonished. When I watched '60 Minutes' last night I saw a big surprise report that I was right all along about oil ... the commodities futures market. At the New York Mercantile Exchange, it's traded alongside cotton [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 19:28:09

'60 Minutes': Did speculation fuel oil price?

There was an excellent item last night on 60 Minutes about the role speculators played in the oil price spike this summer ... problem was a result of the commodities markets being "invaded by a new breed of investor." "Approximately 60 to 70 percent of the oil contracts in the futures markets are now held by speculative [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 06:26:00

Cautious Optimism In a Minefield

In markets such as this, all optimism can be described as “cautious.” Equity futures currently suggest a mild boost when the market opens, following mixed results ... The bursting of the credit bubble alongside the collapsed housing and commodities booms are weighing [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 14:34:04

Some Opening Comments June 27 2008

Prices of Treasury coupon securities are registering small mixed changes in overnight trading ... trading. Current futures market prices (it is 623AM on the beautiful South Shore of Long Island ... percent.The 2 year/10 year spread is flatter by 4 basis points and trades around 134 basis points [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 10:51:21

Volume in Futures and the Stock Market

My approach to trading is based on the objective evaluation of the "Energies" in the markets ... in every trade - for example, you can't use volume to trade the spot Forex market since it doesn't ... in electronic format for home study (previously only taught in my live seminars). Please leave [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 20:29:08

Pros Say: Buck Up — And Buy Upgraded Stocks!

#fullpost{display:inline;}An in-depth analysis of America's auto makers revealed startling details dating back at least five years, ... BeginsKevin Ferry of Cronus Futures Management said market strategists will be focusing on two things [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 19:19:00

Who let the oil market be manipulated?

For anyone who believes that speculation by energy traders explains at least a portion of the run-up in oil prices, the announcement that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating oil market ... some commodity trading exchanges to operate without oversight while others must report what's going [more...]

Date: 2008-05-30 15:51:47

The Top 10 Biofuels Stories of the Year: #6, Commodity prices

Palm, corn, wheat, ethanol, oil, and soybeans went on their biggest Coney Island rollercoaster ride ever this year, with corn rising as high last summer as $7.85 in the futures markets before falling to $3.50 late ... , had just two biodiesel plants operating in the country. Corn, soybean futures rise sharply on weak [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 12:59:02

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

Perspctv Relaunches Comparison Dashboard

This year’s US election cycle brought us a number of interesting web sites to track election news, polls, and results ... , and futures market predictions, and created timelines of much of the data. In addition, Perspctv scrolled [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 14:27:28

Senate Republicans Block Gas Price Reduction And Housing Crisis Measures-- Right-wing Ideology Trumps Common Sense (Again)

Lunsford & McConnell: different eating habits/similar energy policies Only 13 Republican senators voted against the bill that would allow the federal ... up gasoline prices by manipulating the futures markets. Every Democrat plus Lieberman and the one actual [more...]

Date: 2008-07-25 22:24:28

Dow Directions 12/22/08

Dow Directions 12/22/08 December 23rd, 2008 by Uncle Mike Another wild day on Wall Street ... in the comming weeks. Technorati Profile Relevant Tags:candlesticks, day trading, futures, market directions, mechanical trading, momentum oscillators, moving averages, online trading, stocks and commodities [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 15:49:19

The IT economy is sailing into unknown waters

This is a guest post from Larry Dignan. You can read the original article on Larry’s blog Between the Lines on TechRepublic’s sister site ZDNet ... that the stock futures can’t fall any lower before the market opens, that lack of visibility is critical ... Trust, a proxy for the tech-heavy Nasdaq, year to date through premarket trading: qqqq.png Let’ [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 13:04:44

Where to next? The World’s economy in 2009

Will Brown looks ahead to 2009 and suggests it’s not a good time to be a capitalist ... and private consumers. Futures markets show no expectations that demand is about to rebound soon. Tony [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 08:50:14

Trading The Emini Russell 2000 (Part 2) - Correction, & About "Monitoring of Daily Performance"

Below shows the correct chart for my previous post ( ... . For someone who started out with merely 28k, and who's never traded the futures market, that was more than ... I had been trading 10 GS options contracts and was used to the big swings. What's worth mentioning again here [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 00:59:00

Weekly Watchlist 01/12

Weekly Watchlist 01/12 Posted on Monday, January 12, 2009 at 07:42AM by Option Addict | Loading.. ... to be day trading, don't forget Monday's pivot points: Mini Dow /YM R2 8835 R1 8682 PP 8597 S1 8444 ... continuation overnight in the index futures, look for the market to open up lower near trend support [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 14:42:18

Sweet crude at $42/barrel

AP: Sweet crude for February delivery tumbled 12 percent, or $5.95, to settle at $42 ... he's seen in a while. ... The crude futures market is now in what oil traders call a "contango" -- in which ... delivery was trading at $49.34, about $5 cheaper than the February contract. "A steep contango [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 00:34:17

The Citigroup Bailout

It's bailout time. Let's start with Paul Kedrosky: Good Bank, Bad Bank, and F---ed Bank: Apparently Citibank and the U.S. government (i.e ... have more when there is more, and I know the equity futures markets like it -- it's admittedly less terrifying [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 07:43:10

Getting a Head Start

I sometimes trade futures on Sunday evenings after the markets open at 6:00 pm. EST. Usually, it's a fast trade to get a head start on the week. This was mostly a technical trade of the S&P Emini futures last night with NRIBs (NR7 ... tumble in Europe and Asia overnight and U.S. index futures retreat as bank bailouts accelerated [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 00:31:59

Dow Directions 01/02/09

Dow Directions 01/02/09 January 2nd, 2009 by Uncle Mike Three White Soilders The Dow was higher today ... to believe it is here to stay. Uncle Mike Relevant Tags:candlesticks, daytrading, equities, futures, market directions, momentum oscillators, moving averages, stocks and commodities, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 23:07:25

Not All Hedge Fund Strategies Stink This Year

Geoffrey Rogow reports: Although losses and redemptions are drastically shrinking the entire hedge fund world, ... % at the end of 2007. “They trade in liquid markets, like futures, with an event horizon of two hours [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 14:44:27

Oil Watch: Oil Bears and $2 Gas

The bears were pushed away from the oil-market carcass, but only just. Crude futures closed up at just under $50, the first upward tick in six days, as markets tried ... , at least, there’s nothing but good news for American drivers. Nationwide average gasoline prices fell [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 11:05:00

Jim Hamiton Listens to Janet Yellen of the SF Fed on Risks for the U.S. Economy

Janet: Econbrowser: Janet Yellen on risks and prospects for the U.S ... high... inventories of unsold homes remain at elevated levels.... futures market for house prices ... in developing countries has boosted their appetite for commodities... since 2000, world demand for oil [more...]

Date: 2008-07-08 18:43:00

Can you solve a borrowing crisis by borrowing more?

The government has a strange idea that you solve a problem brought about by borrowing too much, by borrowing more ... other through the derivatives and futures markets. When this had gone to extreme levels [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 08:40:03

SEO 101: Choosing Your Keywords

Let's talk briefly about what SEO is exactly. From Wikipedia: "Search engine optimization (SEO) ... to properly SEO your site and we will get into all of those methods in future posts ... in the real estate market in some capacity. If you are a real estate agent or broker, chances [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 14:03:25

Free Fall: Oil Price Plummets to Near $63

Even after taking the weekend to digest OPEC’s announced production cut Friday, oil markets aren’t impressed. Crude oil futures kept falling Monday, approaching $63 a barrel and marking their lowest prices ... . “Fear is the word,” one broker told Bloomberg. [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 16:36:41

HMS Walmart Warns

StreetInsider reports on Walmart December sales. I will grant one excuse I usually dismiss. The weather was bad in some regions ... futures and the stock tanked in pre-market trading. More evidence of containment not being ... market share or I don't know, Princess Ponies pooping pillow mints. It can only be hoped that bad news [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 12:33:00

The Government Wants Your Opinion on Prediction-Markets Regulation

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is soliciting public comment on the regulatory treatment of event (prediction) ... to that enjoyed by established futures and options exchanges. Aside from the obvious libertarian argument [more...]

Date: 2008-07-03 22:26:38

FACTBOX-US healthcare spending hit $2.2 trillion in 2007

U.S. healthcare spending rose to $2.2 trillion in 2007, or $7,421 per person, an increase of more than 6 percent from the previous year, the U.S ... On Banks’ Dollar Purchases In NDF Market Monday August 22, 2008 — JGB futures fall on profit grab after Treasuries dip October 21, 2008 — Philippines rejects bids for 10-yr T-bond at auction July 21 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 06:43:22

Are Speculators Really That Bad for Commodities Markets? (pfblogs.org)

David Enke submits: Commodity index investors (ie, speculators) sold $39 billion worth of crude oil futures between the July market peaks and September 2nd, a time that saw a rapid sell-off in crude oil prices (see Independent.iearticle).Complete Story » ... [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 11:41:59

Recognizing Reversal Patterns in the Stock Market

The S&P 500 Index (ES futures contract; top chart) staged a nice turnaround in afternoon trading ... , enabling ES to retrace its day's losses. Recognizing these patterns as they emerge is a key element of trading success; turnarounds often occur when buyers/sellers cannot move markets higher/lower [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 23:29:00

Cyklotron 2.4

New technical analysis method. New formulas and indicators. Professional tool for market analysts. Stocks, commodities, forex, futures and t-bonds trading become unexpected effective. EOD data in csv and prn formats. Cyklotron finds and optimizes quotes cycle and it generates traading signals [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 07:50:05

Dramatic Return of Risk Aversion May Not Be All Bad

Good Evening: In the wake of the mid November washout in almost all forms of risk taking, ... in no mood to continue last week’s rally in Wall Street. Global equity markets and U.S. index futures were [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 04:06:05

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