Managed Futures Shine in 2008 Massacre
Managed futures funds or Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) ... , trade over 100 highly liquid global futures contracts, including stock indexes, bond indexes ... compared to a 15.6% gain for the CSFB/Tremont Managed Futures Index. Only dedicated short-sellers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 19:38:44
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Celica Marketing
artclipat.com - Celica Marketing has been a leading name for all marketing solutions in the global business arena ... , futures and options trading. Up to this point you can see that InformedTrades is not only about forex ... that free trading videos would be a big plus for Pipholic. Unfortunately I’m having technical difficulties [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 07:30:25
“Peluang bisnis “Spot Indeks” di era krisis global
Company Profile PT. Maxgain International Futures was established on 24 May 2000 based on Notary Deed No ... has anticipated the development of the futures trading industry in Indonesia by enhancing its human resources development with qualified management which is supported by experienced advisors in futures trading [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 00:53:01
Peluang Bisnis “SPORT INDEX” yang menguntungkan di era krisis global
Company Profile PT. Maxgain International Futures was established on 24 May 2000 based on Notary Deed No ... has anticipated the development of the futures trading industry in Indonesia by enhancing its human resources development with qualified management which is supported by experienced advisors in futures trading [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 14:59:58
Flawed system
Stories by HILARY CHIEW Activists are calling for a re-examination of the capitalist system to overcome the social and economic ills of the world ... are traded in the futures markets where investors do not buy or sell a physical commodity like rice or crude ... about 60% of the wheat traded on the global commodity markets. So lucrative is this business [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 23:15:00
Trend Indicator
Why are some traders more successful than others? There are probably as many answers as there are traders out there ... as options and futures are concerned. In options trading your biggest enemy by far is time ... on the long run.The same rule applies to any short-term oriented trader. The Global Futures Trend Index [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 23:04:00
Weekly Futures Positions Review - December 14, 2008
Top posts from the past week:Marc Faber: The 2009 Global Economy Will Be A "Total Disaster"US Bailout Price Tag Heading for $10+ Trillion(!) ... review of my futures trades from the previous week:Covered my British Pound short. British Pound futures have been trading sideways over the last few weeks. And it looks like the US dollar rally [more...]
Date: 2008-12-14 00:26:00
Comments on Jason's Volatility System
Jason from the Angry Investor blog has proposed a semi-mechanical volatility system in both my chatbox and his blog here - http://theangryinvestor ... to comment on a global and highly liquid trading platforms such as the Dow Jones Futures. The first ... .blogspot.com/2008/12/blog-capsule-my-dow-jones-futures-for.htmlI thought it would be a good idea [more...]
Date: 2008-12-07 00:52:00
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
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
So how’s policy coordination in the G-20 going?
One of the lesser tragedies of this fall’s global recession is that the book I was going to write on the future of global governance is going to ... the round but also the WTO system”…. The outcome runs counter to promises made by leaders of the Group ... trading partners with measures to benefit local producers. Brazil and Argentina have argued [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 21:32:59
Oil prices mixed on bleak economic outlook
Oil prices were mixed in Asian trade on Monday on continuing worries about the weak global economy, analysts said. New York’s main futures contract, light sweet crude for February delivery, was down 27 cents to 40.56 dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent North Sea crude for February [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 06:48:19
30YR Bond Auction Goes Badly
A: As I said many times here, the fed can NOT control the long end of the curve! ... products in New York at MF Global Ltd., the world's largest broker of exchange-traded futures and options [more...]
Date: 2008-11-13 23:27:12
Opening Comments October 24 2008
Prices of Treasury coupon securities are surging in overnight trading as fears of a global recession spark a meltdown in global equity markets and a ... and that is the lowest level for that index since its inception in 1998. Dow futures are down 550 points and the S and P futures are down 60. Each is down limit and can not move lower until the [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 10:47:43
Gold Heads for Record Eighth Annual Gain on Dollar, Recession
By Stuart Wallace Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — Gold headed for a record eighth annual gain in London on expectations that the dollar and global economies ... at Alaron Trading Corp., said from Chicago, predicting that bullion will trade at $840 to $880 an ounce ... . This year’s advance would be the smallest since 2001. Futures for February fell $3.70, or 0.4 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 13:46:00
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
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
Coal Earnings this Week
Many coal companies are reporting this week, and how much they beat or did not beat estimates are not the issue at these valuations and after such ... , these global growth/commodity names can only be trading vehicles because institutions need to come ... historic drops in stock prices. The main emphasis now is on future prospects, and the thoughts [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 13:00:02
Green Ink: Detroit’s Electric Dance, and Google’s Dirty Searches
paper Crude oil futures slumped to $38 in early trading Monday amid fears that lower OPEC production won’t be enough to counter cratering global demand for oil, Bloomberg reports. With oil prices (and valuations) falling, Exxon is sitting ... profiles “Bidder 70,” the environmental activist who waylaid the Utah oil-and-gas lease auction [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 16:14:00
Interesting articles you might have missed during the week
The pace of change for the world has accelerated. Perhaps a glance at these stories can help keep your Orientation current! ... to the Caribbean. Futures contracts on the Chicago Board of Trade show {the price of} wheat ... harvests and worsen a food crisis for developing countries. Global production of wheat, the most [more...]
Date: 2008-11-01 12:00:27
DrumBeat: November 20, 2008
Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World "Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World" ... years. On the final day of trading for the December contract, U.S. crude futures fell $4 to settle ... in prediction or crystal ball-gazing. Mindful that there are many possible "futures," we offer [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 14:03:38
Will globalization be reversed?
OK, I am re-reading The Economist (even a broken clock shows the correct time twice a day, right?) ... exports of key commodities and, in India’s case, restricting futures trading. Concern about food [more...]
Date: 2008-10-09 20:07:05
01-08-09 AgriCharts Midday Ag Market Commentary
AgriCharts Market Commentary(Courtesy of www.agricharts.com)Midday - January 8, 2009 CLICK BELOWCornMarch corn futures are trading lower moving into the midday session. Renewed concerns over the impact of the recessionary economy domestic and global placed bearish pressure to grains and soy [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 17:22:39
Treasuries and Gold Rise as Global Credit Freeze Prompts More Bailouts
In a sea of red, government bonds and are gold both rising as the world's banking system cracks under the weight of the biggest debt expansion in ... rates. Futures on the Chicago Board of Trade show a 60 percent probability the Fed will slash [more...]
Date: 2008-10-06 11:58:00
World markets slump on recession fears
World markets slump on recession fears World stock markets tumbled Friday on growing alarm that a global recession will ravage corporate profits and ... station Samsung 3rd-quarter profit falls 44 percent US dollar mixed, gold fell in trading South ... push smaller developing economies to the brink of collapse. Futures indicated a sharp drop on Wall [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 12:56:36
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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