Maryland’s Gensler finds a spot in Obama administration

Some Marylanders’ names have been tossed around as possibilities for posts in the Obama administration (i.e. former Rep. Wayne Gilchrest and Dr ... as his pick to head up the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The CFTC oversees $5 trillion in futures and options trading — oil and other commodities prices have been hot-button issues there this year [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 18:11:06

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Trading Options: Short Term Power Moves

trading options has many advantages over other investment vehicles ... Strangle.Option contracts also provide traders with an enormous amount of leverage. In the US, 1 option ... of 1,000 times the underlying stock or commodity. Our Newsletter Services are backed by years [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 05:01:16

Commodity options trading - By 1946, however, conditions had changed.

The postwar boom was beginning. Money was plentiful, goods were scarce, and the inflationary pressures were building ... of Forex Commodity Trading Forex Online, visit Commodity Trading Systems [more...]

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

options in media buying - is it possible?

(I have just been reading a lot of Seth Godin's blogs - and as always, I am getting inspired by his entries ... , earning the airline a processing fee each time, and enriching those that want to start trading this expiring commodity. I have not mastered the art of options-trading - but I think his idea [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 16:44:27

The oil-major prop desks cometh

Proprietary trading (Wikipedia): The term used in investment banking to describe when the firm's traders actively trade stocks, bonds, options, commodities, or other items with its own money as opposed to its customers' money, so as to make a profit for itself. Not so easy anymore says former Sempra Metals-economist turned Reuters columnist [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 09:21:39

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

Mini Forex Trading: Lesser Stakes, Greater Possibilities

Forex trading is one of the most viable options for someone who’s looking at bigger possibilities, ... , a trader can trade in a commodity more than the money available in his account. Say with a $250 deposit ... , you get to enjoy free trading platform and benefits that regular forex traders get to enjoy. These would [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 12:49:38

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

Tuesday links: cash on the sidelines

There is a lot of cash on the sidelines.  (Bloomberg.com) “Confidence is a fragile commodity.”  (FT.com) ... demonstrable edge is just one of the three components that comprise any good trading system.”  (Condor Options ... of index volatility.”  (Daily Options Report) High yield bond spreads have come in…a little bit [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 19:16:38

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

IFE inc. - COMMODITY TRADING ADVISOR CTA - FOREIGN INTRODUCING BROKER FIB - Home

The International Future Exchange, Futures and options online trading, systems trading, managed futures, discount trading, simulated trading, free re 1 Vote(s) [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 01:04:30

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

Riding the Chesapeake Waves

Chesapeake As major commodities have been hammered in the quest to unwind losing positions, commodity-related companies have also taken a big hit ... to heavy volatility in the options market of late. Equity derivatives strategist Sveinn Palsson ... than an established S&P 500 component.” Trading in options has been heavy, with activity both in put [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 16:07:01

Tips for Improving your Investing

Many investors -- especially beginning investors -- want tips for improving their investing. There are a lot of tools out there ( ... strategies. However, Stock Trading To Go has some very basic and active things you can do in order ... as funds, bonds, currencies, options, commodities, futures and other opportunities might [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 19:38:01

Report: German Dax, NYSE considering fusion

Report: German Dax, NYSE considering fusion December 7th, ... platform where traders can deal in stocks, options, futures, commodities and corporate bonds across two ... in an advance release of its Monday edition. Trading would based in New York, while derivatives would remain [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 20:51:02

Trading in Jan 2009: Oil

This site does not provide financial advice and anything that you read here should in no way be construed as financial advice. Trading in shares and commodities has seen the average investor lose 50% of their money in 2008 ... and Gas the FTSE and AIM markets have a huge variety of options. Many are pure gambling bets at the moment [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 22:24:00

Stock Market Dictionary - D

DFifth letter of a NASDAQ stock symbol specifying that it is a new issue, such as the result of a reverse split ... commodity, futures, and options markets are allowed to rise or fall in a day. Exchanges usually impose ... in the context of stocks to refer to the date trading begins on a new stock issued to the public.Date [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 16:33:00

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

Option Greek In The Market

by Walter Fox Trading which is a practice dating way back in time involved the exchange of commodities by two or more people, ... their money, a market was created for stock brokers, trading methods, and helpers. Trading software was thus introduced to the share trading market. This software has been numerously tried and tested [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 18:44:18

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

Market Monopoly

A bonus Friday afternoon guest post via Macro Man -- a portfolio manager at a London-based hedge fund, he trades global currencies, equities, fixed income, and commodities. Over a long and varied career, Macro Man has been an international economist, a sell-side currency strategist, and a currency options market-maker. His amusing Friday [more...]

Date: 2008-08-29 18:30:00

Oil dip

Crude oil prices have fallen to about $67 a barrel from their record summer highs of about $146, as concerns of slowing economies filter into the commodities market. But, even with that drop ... are looking at WTI crude oil options -- where the number of implied vol for OTM puts is trading at much [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 06:57:01

Tuesday Options Update: EGO, LEH, XLF, LXK, EMC, AXP, GES (pfblogs.org)

Rebecca Engmann Darst contributed to this report.Eldorado Gold Corp (EGO) – Broad shrinkage in commodity stocks followed thankful news of the dissipation of Hurricane ... , trading at some 7 times the normal level. While today’s volume appears firmly rooted on the call side [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 18:37:30

The Energy-Stock Chasm

In the wake of the shuttering of Ospraie Management’s largest fund Tuesday, ... positions on commodities futures and long ones on resource equities — a bet that didn’t work out, because those stocks continued to decline. “The options pricing implies that these stocks are not done [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 19:01:57

Wednesday links: quant comedown

Is trading against the trend worth the risk?  (MarketSci Blog) What now for quants?  (Market Movers) The VIX was never all that accurate.  ( ... .  (Daily Options Report) One attempt at a lazy, ETF-heavy, retirement portfolio.  (Infectious Greed ... market?  (Bespoke) What effect has the commodity index re-balancing had on the markets [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 17:53:19

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