Commodity Futures Trading Is Glamorous But Not For Average Investor
Trading Commodities for a living is not what it seems ... trading commodity futures contracts. There’s a well known saying amongst commodity traders: “It’s really easy to make a small fortune trading commodities… You just have to start with a large fortune!” [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 21:08:04
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What is the front futures contract?
The other day I got a question about futures contracts from a member of my mailing list on a subject which I’m sure others have as well ... . Understanding Open Interest in Futures and Options Trading Predicting Fed Rate Policy with Fed ... . I am in the progress of learning the details about Futures right now. On the web I’ve lately [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 13:42:59
Another Ponzi Scheme
Broken Record I’ve said it all before. The following press release can be found here ... the funds in an account that would trade in securities futures contracts, including S&P 500 stock index futures. According to the complaint, despite the impressive and consistent returns he reported [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 03:37:41
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
US Home Price Securities - Getting Closer To Launch
MarketWatch is reporting that MacroShares Housing Depositor LLC today filed an amended prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission to ... expressed herein are those of the author, and no statement should be as an offer to buy or sell any futures contract, or security or option or other derivative instrument. Trading of all such futures [more...]
Date: 2008-10-01 14:41:58
CFD Trading Australia
by TRADERREPORTS As the name suggests, Contracts for difference (CFD) ... ) can be traded on equities (shares), index trades, FOREX and commodities. Contracts for difference allow investors to take long or short positions, and unlike futures contracts have no fixed expiry [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 16:06:34
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
Samuelson on Why We Should (Not) Shoot the Speculators
Who are these offensive souls? Well, they often don’t fit the stereotype of sleazy high rollers: ... and producers of commodities to hedge. Airlines can lock in fuel prices by buying oil futures; farmers can lock ... generally don’t buy the physical goods, whether oil or corn. Instead, they trade “futures contracts,” [more...]
Date: 2008-07-01 15:26:38
Interest Rate Risk Exposure
Interest rate exposure refers to the interest rate differential between the two countries' currencies in a foreign exchange contract ... conditions:* 2 pips spread on six currency pairs.* Providing online trading services without maintenance ... or futures contract. As a side note, arbitragers are investors that take advantage when interest [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 19:58:00
News will not make you money
Just saw this on Bloomberg this evening - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=a1Ab6lUay5TE&refer=newsJan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The steepest plunge in crude prices on record may be setting up oil investors for a rally this year, if history is any guide. The so-called forward curve of futures contracts traded on the New [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 13:37:00
CFTC Report on High Oil Prices - "Speculation My A$$"
With a pending Senate vote on the "Stop Excessive Energy Speculation Act", it seems that we (not the TOD 'we', but the collective society 'we') ... . In this report, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), threw cold water on the recent ... , activity on the crude oil futures market – as measured by the number of contracts outstanding, trading [more...]
Date: 2008-07-23 14:47:59
Oil, Another 'Trouble in Middle East' Bounce
A bounce to $50 and even $55 isn't excessive. Prices are now above the declining 20 day EMA (blue line) and should gravitate to the 50 day EMA ( ... for a rally this year, if history is any guide.The so-called forward curve of futures contracts traded ... cut, raised the price of all the crude types it exports to the U.S.”Another way to play commodities [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 13:30:00
Deal Or No Deal...The Buck Is A Bust
Oil Curve Steeper Than '99 Shows Possible Gain in '09Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The steepest plunge in crude prices on record may be setting up oil investors for a rally this year, if history is any guide.The so-called forward curve of futures contracts traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange suggests oil will rise 28 percent to $60 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 01:28:00
Crude Oil Industry Headline News
"Crude Oil Up But Seesaws On Gaza, Russia, Dollar"U.S ... forward curve of futures contracts traded on the New York....Complete Story"Iran Says OPEC to Hold ... . crude oil futures edged upbut trading seesawed on Monday as a stronger dollar brought prices down [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 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
S&P/Case-Shiller Certificate Issued.... In Germany
The German exchanges Xetra and EUWAX have listed a security called "Open End Index Certificate on the S& ... be as an offer to buy or sell any futures contract, or security or option or other derivative instrument. Trading of all such futures, securities, options and other derivative instruments entails significant risk [more...]
Date: 2008-08-14 19:24:29
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
Give me the physical, not the paper
#fullpost{display:inline;}Ambrose Evans Pritchard over at the Telegraph has filed this report (hat tip Domus) ... their stockbroker to buy shares of one of the many gold ETFs or some commodity futures contract ... ," he said, referring to exchange trade funds listed in London, New York, and other bourses [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 19:44:00
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
Investing In Commodities
I was reading Larry Swedroe’s The Only Guide to Alternative Investments You’ll Ever Need the other day, ... a futures contract; however, I have been thinking about adding commodities to my overall portfolio ... There are several ways to gain exposure to commodities without the complexities of futures trading [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 00:28:53
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
Intrade: McCain Win Now Pays 6-to-1
For those John McCain (R) true believers out there, you can now get 6-to-1 odds over at Intrade on a McCain victory. Right now, a futures contract on a McCain victory are trading at just 14. It would payout 100 if he wins. That's a tidy return on your investment in just 11 days if you have the guts [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 23:34:55
Bombay Stock Exchange gets SEBI nod for currency derivatives
Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has received “in-principle approval” from market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) ... Committee on Exchange Traded Currency Futures, released by the Reserve Bank of India and SEBI May 29 ... currency futures contracts facilitate easy access, increased transparency, efficient price discovery [more...]
Date: 2008-08-29 07:29:46
Collect Lots Of Information For Having Effective Futures Trading
Information plays very important role, when you want to get a stronger position in the market ... like internet. On internet there are lots of websites that are dealing in futures brokers firms and guiding ... . If you haven’t much information on futures contract then don’t think that you can get profits [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 03:43:44
Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings
Stock-Net presents custom stock ratings, powered by Caprock Analytics ... on energy trading activities focused on buying and selling futures contracts and other derivative instruments based on the commodities it produces. The Company has four principal subsidiaries [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 13:03:08
CFD Trading- Contracts for Difference
by TRADERREPORTS As the name suggests, Contracts for difference (CFD) ... allow investors to take long or short positions, and unlike futures contracts have no fixed expiry ... are now mostly online and use electronic platforms, which makes the trading routine a lot faster. CFDs [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 23:54:04
Zimfo Bytes
Rising production costs and uncertain profit margins have risk-averse farmers ready to cut corn plantings in 2009 in favor of soybeans, ... Futures survey. The daily volume of 7,363 contracts traded Dec. 10, 2008 topped the former daily Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX) record. The new daily record also pushed December 2008 in to the top 20 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 13:42:04
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
Australia CFD Trading- Find a Broker
by TRADERREPORTS As the name suggests, Contracts for difference (CFD) ... , one is more like a traditional spread better where you are trading with the CFD provider and have to trade ... allow investors to take long or short positions, and unlike futures contracts have no fixed expiry [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 18:52:22
CFD Report- Contracts for Difference Report
As the name suggests, Contracts for difference (CFD) ... trading strategies and are the preferred vehicle amongst hedge funds and professional traders. You should ... allow investors to take long or short positions, and unlike futures contracts have no fixed expiry [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 16:02:12
DFA and two former execs hit with $12 million penalty
WASHINGTON — Dairy Farmers of America, its former chief executive officer, Gary Hanman, ... limits in that contract. The settlement was announced Dec. 16 by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading ... of Enforcement Stephen J. Obie, the enforcement action also ensures future compliance with federal [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 17:48:36
S&P 500 a potential short
The overbought S&P and oversold Long bond market setup a bearish short term scenario for the S&P if on tomorrow January 7th the S&P futures gap above ... contract trades since 1982. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 02:37:00
BEST CFD BROKER- CFD Trading Rules
by TRADERREPORTS As the name suggests, Contracts for difference (CFD) ... allow investors to take long or short positions, and unlike futures contracts have no fixed expiry ... are now mostly online and use electronic platforms, which makes the trading routine a lot faster. CFDs [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 15:43:49
Oil Rises to 5-Week High Above $50 on OPEC Cuts, Russia Dispute
By Grant Smith Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) — Crude oil rose to a five-week high above $50 as Kuwait and Qatar indicated they will implement supply cuts ... percent, to $51.86 a barrel on London’s ICE Futures Europe exchange, also the highest since Dec. 1. The contract traded at $51.37 a barrel at 1:23 p.m. “Russia continues to play hardball [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 13:49:59
Weekly Futures Positions Review - December 28, 2008
Top posts from the past week:Lean Hog Prices Poised to Climb in 2009Why eBay is the Best Indicator of Gold's Fair ValueOur coverage of Marc Faber's ... of our trades and positions from the previous week:Continued to hold one cocoa futures contract - up slightly on the week. Looking to add to this position on higher high's.Continued to hold one [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 23:35:00
CDS Too Risky for CME Trading, Key Members Say
In theory, moving credit default swaps from over the counter trading to exchange trading should reduce systemic risk ... be (in theory, old contracts could be "novated" in favor of new ones). CDS suitable for exchange trading ... can realistically support. Moreover, they contend that putting together CDS and futures under the same [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 08:37:57
Watching Oil
I am taking a look at oil here. The front month contract has fallen from $147 in July – remember then? – to $33 Friday ... me that this move is far more than any “deflationary” end-of-the-world trade. The contango in the futures ... . I had been bullish on commodities for much of this decade until markets got really stupid earlier [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 14:00:56
Satyam kicked out from Futures and Options
Members are advised to note that due to the recent developments in M/s ... , no futures and options contracts will be available in the underlying SATYAMCOMP for trading from January 30 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 13:53:00
CFD Report Australia- Find a Broker
by TRADERREPORTS As the name suggests, Contracts for difference (CFD) ... allow investors to take long or short positions, and unlike futures contracts have no fixed expiry ... are now mostly online and use electronic platforms, which makes the trading routine a lot faster. CFDs [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 00:00:09
CFD Broker Australia- Find A Broker
by TRADERREPORTS As the name suggests, Contracts for difference (CFD) ... allow investors to take long or short positions, and unlike futures contracts have no fixed expiry ... are now mostly online and use electronic platforms, which makes the trading routine a lot faster. CFDs [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 18:52:59
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
More speculation about those oil speculators
I normally leave it to folks like Dean Baker to beat up on the press ... their businesses. But when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission examined Vitol's books last month ... in oil and a number of other commodity markets. The CFTC separates the holders of those contracts [more...]
Date: 2008-08-22 04:02:06
The Fed's Desired 'Weaker Dollar'
A: Fed cut 50 basis points yesterday and until the last five minutes of trading, the markets enjoyed it. Why not right? Now, I have been in the camp of rate cuts for about 4 months now, once the commodity bubble ... in the near future. While housing and credit contract, are prices everywhere going down though [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 12:09:45
Futures Trading levels and Economic reports for Dec. 30th
*To be removed, please reply with remove daytrading in subject line Dear Trader, Two more trading days left in 2008, which will go down as one of the most volatile years of recent history. LEVELS: Contract (March 2008) SP500 (big & Mini) Nasdaq100 (big & Mini) Dow Jones (big & Mini) Mini Russell Resistance 3 895 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 21:39:00
DrumBeat: September 26, 2008
Oil: Contract killing “SPECULATORS are back and prices are up,” moaned James May, the head of the Air Transport Association, ... . The Democrats have vowed to pass a law crimping speculation. The Commodity Futures Trading [more...]
Date: 2008-09-26 13:15:07
Oil Prices Fell to Close to $US40 as Gold Price Rises
Oil prices fell to close to $US40 on Friday after a highly volatile trading week as new US data showed rising unemployment and deepening recession in the world’s biggest oil consuming nation. The benchmark contract, light sweet crude ... futures added 0.0805 cents to $US1.5595 a pound. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 01:09:58
S&P 500 a potential short
The overbought S&P and oversold Long bond market setup a bearish short term scenario for the S&P if tomorrow January 7th the S&P futures gap above todays high (942). This pattern has occurred 42 times and all 42 instances ... on 1 large S&P contract trades since 1982 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 03:04:27
Day Trading the S&P Em...
Day Trading the S&P Em... The S#38;P E Mini Futures contract closed up today. After... Play on iPhone or iPod iTouch Play Add to custom mycast feed [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 12:06:14
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
Trading Against Low Volume Rallies
Much of the talk these days has been about the incredibly low volume across the board ... this strategy on one contract of the emini S&P 500 futures resulted in a nice positive expectancy [more...]
Date: 2008-08-29 04:09:33
