Neff goes bargain hunting

In a battered market, the former Windsor fund manager is finding stocks that meet his strict value standards ... by going against the crowd - such as shorting Nasdaq 100 futures during the tech bubble to pick up 40 ... months of 2008, even tapping his bond portfolio in December for extra cash. On the eve of the New [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 01:43:03

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James Simons' "fuzzy" math

The other day I cooked some fish for dinner, and the next day, when I walked in the house it stunk ... futures fund-DOWN 12%James Simons Renaissance Institutional Equities Fund- DOWN 16%Now I didn't mention ... %. If he managed your money, you were down 12-16%.So in honor of all those astrophysicists from James Simon's [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 02:42:00

Todd Price profiled in Kenosha News

Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch Local candidate for state education post pushes new ideas, ... to gambling on kids’ futures. We have to come up with answers so middle class homeowners aren’t priced ... to vouchers, but supports charter schools if they are managed by local boards, like Kenosha’s charter schools [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 17:46:13

Above the fold

A DAILY round-up of economic news: Germany, which not that long ago looked like one of Europe's bright spots, ... %, and following on a second-quarter output drop of 0.4% managed to cross the critical threshold ... was down over 400 points yesterday, Asia is off 4%, Europe is off 2%, and American futures are pointing [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 14:13:01

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

Nasdaq wedge breakout

On a closing basis the Nasdaq has managed to crack through resistance, but has done so on a background of falling money flow and overbought momentum ... likely today based on futures, so it will be matter of where support will kick [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 14:07:51

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

Green Ink: What Windfall Tax?

paper Crude oil futures rebounded above $48 a barrel after OPEC said it would “definitely” cut output this month, but the oil cartel hasn’t yet managed to comply with its previous two production [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 13:09:30

Wednesday morning links

TOP STORIES Retail sales plunge 1.2 percent in September - AP Drama Behind a $250 Billion Banking Deal - NY Times Pimco Tapped to Manage Fed's CPFF - ... the gold standard - The Independent MARKETS/INVESTING Oil at 13 month low on economic weakness, ebbing demand - AP Gold climbs as equity markets fall further - Reuters U.S. Stock Futures Extend Drop [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 12:25:00

It’s still all about the collateral

Good Evening: The U.S. capital markets went on another roller-coaster ride today, and the “fun” doesn’t look to stop anytime soon ... s session managed to give equities a rare up day. Positive news out of Hewlett Packard and Home ... were up in early trading, but the HPQ news in particular seemed to steady our index futures prior [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 06:32:19

robert seidel.

I’m a big time fan of Robert Seidel. Blurring the traditional lines between film-making and animation, ... for Zero 7’s “Futures” is undeniable. Watch it and let your jaw drop. Deservedly so, Seidel is also part ... colour that’s not like anything I’ve ever seen before. As with all his work, it’s more like he managed [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 21:39:04

Managing change vs Managing uncertainty

I just had an e-mail correspondence with a client in the financial industry who pointed out something interesting:" ... on the current financial turmoil. The introductory paragraph says it all: "The future of capitalism ... and other commodity prices, lurched wildly, while housing prices in Spain, the United Kingdom [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 08:58:20

AIG (AIG) Wants The 1,000th Change In Its Government Loan Rules

The management at AIG (AIG) is extremely clever. Every time it runs into trouble paying back the $144 billion credit facilities provided by the ... , it is trading them for assets which have dubious futures. Better for AIG to hold those assets until it has cash buyers. The process may get spread out, but the Fed will not be stiffed. According [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 11:02:03

FusionIQ in Barron’s

> Excellent commentary about FusionIQ in this weekend’s Barron’s: Separating potential winners — and losers — from the herd ... -management firm, FusionIQ has just made its quantitative stock- and sector-screening system ... to the Pareto Principle, which states that 20% of stocks will be responsible for 80% of future gains [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 15:30:18

Olam

Prices of most inventories are hedged. Olam’s business model is to earn amargin from providing the supply chain management service to its clients, andOlam does not speculate on soft commodity prices to get its margin. Olamtypically hedges 80-85% of its inventories with futures contracts (futures contractexist for cotton, coffee, cocoa [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 03:36:06

Don’t Get Too Excited About This Rally

Rob Curran reports: Broad indexes have risen 20% from their lows six trading sessions ago; in this market, ... managed a similar rally between Oct. 27 and Nov. 4, when it rose 18%. When the stock market is enduring its most volatile year since the 1930s, 19% isn’t a big cushion above the lows. Futures suggest [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 14:03:53

Don’t Get Too Excited About This Rally

Rob Curran reports: Broad indexes have risen 20% from their lows six trading sessions ago; in this market, ... managed a similar rally between Oct. 27 and Nov. 4, when it rose 18%. When the stock market is enduring its most volatile year since the 1930s, 19% isn’t a big cushion above the lows. Futures suggest [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 16:23:18

So Much for the Santa Claus Rally

Those of you who have been following Guido's trading on the right will have seen it jump substantially last week. Guido was short Dow and FTSE futures which collapsed after the auto-bailout deal in Washington ... rallies in the Dow and FTSE, quickly covering after significant drops. Somehow Guido managed to lose [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 15:54:15

Why bailing out AIG might be a good bet

Australian money manager John Hempton offers the clearest explanation of AIG's predicament that I've seen: The core business – the US Domestic Broker Group (DBG) is the best diversified primary insurance ... the present value of future commitments to Social Security and Medicare and yada yada yada). But it could [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 13:44:57

Introducing GalaTime 5L Virtual Portfolios

I’ve been mulling over some new initiative in the area of portfolio management for retail investors in India ... . Q: Is this an investment / trading game? Is this an online tool that allows me to track ... ; these include - stocks, stock & index futures & options, ETFs, commodity futures &amp [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 14:18:04

“Lord of the Rings: Conquest” Machinima Videos are Something to See

As someone who was introduced to the Lord of the Rings trilogy at an early age, and has managed to reread the books pretty much every year since middle school, I consider myself ... of drama there and at least to me it calls to mind the possible futures of the mirror of Galadrial [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 23:59:58

Neff goes bargain hunting

John Neff feels your pain. The legendary money manager, 77, beat the S& ... at Vanguard's Windsor fund. He has been investing his own money since retiring in 1995. Ever a contrarian, he has continued to thrive by going against the crowd - such as shorting Nasdaq 100 futures during [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 14:00:45

Technlogy Society wordpress theme

Technology Society wordpress theme I managed to finish another wordpress theme for a new blog and because Christmas is near, you can download it for free. “Technlogy Society” has the following futures: Valid XHTML/CSS code. AD spots - you can add almost any type of advertising banners, from 728×90px to 468×60px [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 13:49:22

Technlogy Society wordpress theme

Technology Society wordpress theme I managed to finish another wordpress theme for a new blog and because Christmas is near, you can download it for free. “Technlogy Society” has the following futures: Valid XHTML/CSS code. AD spots - you can add almost any type of advertising banners, from 728×90px to 468×60px [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 13:49:22

Been Down So Long, It Looks Like Up To Me

The gold market managed to recover from another downside extension early in the trading session but the reversal seemed to come off a setback in the ... the US economy.”- The Hightower Report, Futures Analysis and ForecastingDavid Hale: Only [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 01:20:00

Managing the Business Risk of Fraud...

Operational Risk Management is in full swing at distressed institutions as the TARP funds continue to flow to these needy corporations ... of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.Gil Soffer, associate deputy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 10:04:00

The Big Idea: Jordan Summers

Fairy tales and post-apocalyptic futures: Are they two great tastes that go great together? ... There are vampires, who might drain you or telekinetically stop your heart. Even if you managed to kill [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 16:26:21

Brooklyn, NY - U.S. Commodity Futures Commission Bans Operator For Fraud; Ordered To Pay $1,350,000 in Restitution

Brooklyn, NY - The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today filed and settled charges of fraud, filing false documents, and misappropriation of customer funds against a registered commodity pool operator, Innovative Capital Management, LLC (Innovative [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 16:02:05

Measure So You Can Manage: Where to From Here?

In my previous life as a financial executive, I firmly advocated a saying attributed to Dr. Edward Deming ( ... , no one can predict the future and I'm not trying to do that here. What I am saying is that previous [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 14:48:00

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