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

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India Halts Trading of Stocks, Bonds, Rupee on Mumbai Attacks

BLOOMBERG - Chen Shiyin and Pooja Thakur Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) ... commandos battled to free hostages held by gunmen at two luxury hotels. S&P CNX Nifty Index futures ... and National Stock Exchange were shut, along with bond, foreign exchange, commodities and money [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 02:58:22

Mutual Funds, ETFs News and Views

Every Stock Mutual Fund Lost Money in 2008 But One | The Big Picture Given that most equity mutual funds are required to be fully (or 90%) ... , |-- Forex Foreign Currencies Exchange Trading Discussion, |-- Stocks, IPO, Options, Warrants, Bonds, Mutual ... Funds: Do You Get What ... A new survey from S&P shows pricey actively-managed mutual funds [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 18:54:29

Four at Four: OPEC Gets Burned

This is a situation the market has not witnessed in some time: declines in oil, the dollar, bond yields and stocks ... Scott Magnuson, commodity trading advisor at MF Global. “The perception of another six to seven ... Paul Brigandi, vice president of trading at Direxion Funds. macys_art_160_20081217161108.jpg [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 12:26:00

Four at Four: OPEC Gets Burned

This is a situation the market has not witnessed in some time: declines in oil, the dollar, bond yields and stocks ... Scott Magnuson, commodity trading advisor at MF Global. “The perception of another six to seven ... Paul Brigandi, vice president of trading at Direxion Funds. macys_art_160_20081217161108.jpg [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 12:26:00

S&P Deposit Receipts (AMEX: SPY) Breaks Support

January 13, 2009 Shares of the S&P Deposit Receipts (AMEX: SPY) have been holding above a rising trend support line since November 2008 ... as bond, gold, small cap, sector, ETF and stock trading strategies. ... bearish level of concern to an already worrisome stock market. The odds are now higher that a retest [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 22:33:29

JGBs fall as stocks rally, U.S. Treasuries slide

Japanese government bonds fell on Monday, the first trading day of 2009, ... bond yields are reversing their recent downward trend,” said Chotaro Morita, chief fixed-income ... for government measures spark more stock buying,” Morita said. March futures slipped 0.29 point to 139.83 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 05:37:29

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

AIG: Stock Falls 30%, Bonds and Credit Default Swaps Trading at Distressed Levels

Even though all eyes have been on Lehman, the potentially more troubling slow-motion train wreck is AIG ... AIG bonds from default for five years, according to broker Phoenix Partners Group. That means it would [more...]

Date: 2008-09-13 04:12:25

Stock Market Dictionary - I

IFifth letter of a NASDAQ stock symbol specifying that it is the third preferred bond of the company. I.B.E.S ... AssociationI.T.S.See: Intermarket trading systemIBC's money fund report averageReport giving the average yield ... and can be diversified through holding a portfolio of stocks.I-I pageRefers to over-the-counter trading. Same [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 16:40:00

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

What Is Going on in Argentina

James Attwood and Drew Benson of Bloomberg: Bloomberg.com: Economy: Argentine Bonds, Stocks Sink as Takeover Fuels Default Concerns : Oct. 22 ( ... is undermining investor confidence that was already faltering as prices on the country's commodity ... for public trading, data compiled by pension funds show. The government's proposal to take control [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 16:07:45

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

Some Opening Comments November 6 2008

Prices of Treasury coupon securities are posting mostly muffled gains in overnight trading ... fell 4 percent. In Europe stocks have fallen between 3 percent and 4 percent. Stock futures ... percent and the yield on the Long Bond is unchanged at 4.18 percent. The 2year/10 year spread is 237 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 12:58:29

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

TREASURIES-Drop further in new year as risk appetite improves

U.S. Treasuries fell in Asia on Friday, extending losses on the first trading day of 2009 as a recovery in stock and credit markets spurred selling of safe-haven government bonds. * The surge in Treasuries stalled last week as bond investors ... in Tokyo and Shanghai among those still closed for holidays. U.S. futures markets for stocks [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 06:26:56

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

AN INSIDER’S VIEW FROM THE CAPITAL MARKETS COOPERATIVE TRADING DESK:

The Week Ahead in the Capital Markets  –   January 5, 2009 As Yogi Berra so wisely observed, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” We were still receiving Bear ... almost every day, and almost every asset class – bonds, stocks, real estate, and commodities – lost value [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 14:11:21

Rural Electrificiation Corporation

Investors with a low-risk appetite can consider taking exposures in the State-owned Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) stock as it is trading at attractive valuations. High demand for funds on the back of huge capacity-addition targets, a relatively low cost of funds as it can float tax-free bonds, advances secured [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 10:55:00

Jim Rogers on stocks, bonds, and silver

Famed investor Jim Rogers has been in the news quite a bit lately. Last week he was in New York for a conference on commodities, yesterday he was in Seoul speaking ... will be ``in a trading range for years to come,'' he said. ... ``I have started going back into the markets; that does [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 15:37:50

How To Profit From Online Commodity Trading

Commodity futures have many advantages as an investment compared to other investment types such as bonds, real estate, or stocks ... . Combine that with the lower commissions assigned to commodities over futures and you’ve got a win [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 19:35:57

Ecuador’s Default, New Rules Hurt Bond Market

By Stephan Kueffner Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Ecuador’s second debt default in a decade and changes to debt issuance rules are undermining the local corporate debt market, said Monica Villagomez, Chief Executive of the Quito Stock Exchange ... plans, she said. Trading volume on the Quito bourse rose 40 percent in 2008 to $2.53 billion [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 05:00:00

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