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Lawrence Solomon at the National Post describes the market for a new kind of value: carbon ... and getting bigger. Europe’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) is the world’s largest trading exchange ... commodities that until recently were nowhere traded. Europe’s carbon trading markets are slated [more...]
Date: 2008-11-09 04:48:21
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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
forex avenger Greetings fellow forex traders. I just found out that there is a new forex trading course called Forex Avenger ... is NOT an automated trading system - i.e it is not an EA (expert advisor). It is though a 100% mechanical trading system, which seems to be the hot commodity everyone is looking for in the forex world. Here [more...]
Date: 2008-10-26 15:02:36
BL TS system has done well in Commodity Trading
To rescue US economy, FOMC has cut interest rate from 6% to 0.25%, not much ammunition left ... switched from stock investment to forex and commodity trading at the start of 2008. Here ... ? If you have not, then learn that stock investment does not do well in all economy environment. I think [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 01:26:53
Carbon Trading: A $64 Billion Economy And Growing
Josh Margolis keeps a grueling schedule, brokering deals between buyers and sellers and forecasting how government actions could affect his clients ... company CantorCO2e, Margolis is part of an exploding branch of finance in a new commodity: carbon ... going to have a carbon trading system in the near future.” He notes that the president-elect supports [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 06:59:27
BLOOMBERG: World According to TARP No Laughing Matter for U.S. (Update1)
By Abigail Moses and Shannon D. Harrington Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) ... by credit-default swaps prompted calls from SEC Chairman Christopher Cox, Commodity Futures Trading ... . The regulatory system is ``terribly broken,'' he said. The Federal Reserve has given futures exchanges until [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 09:01:01
ALL HE HAS TO DO IS AVOID THE MISTAKES OF COOLIDGE, HOOVER AND FDR:
Obama and trade: an alarm sounds (Jagdish Bhagwati, January 8 2009, Financial Times) ... an alarm. Consider Mr Obama’s support for the multilateral trading system. It must be admitted ... of commodity prices and hence increases in support payments. Besides, history shows that the freeing of trade [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 23:51:37
BL TS system has done well in Commodity Trading
To rescue US economy, US Federal Reserves has cut interest rate from 6% to 0.25% (not much ammunition left) ... , 1 breakevenHere are the trades on commodities from 1 Dec to 24 Dec:1. On 23 Dec I closed [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 01:03:00
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
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
Flawed system
11 November, 2008 General News/Issues Source TheStar Tuesday November 11, ... trading on the world stock exchanges. These commodities are traded in the futures markets where ... changes. Hedge funds and other speculative investment funds control about 60% of the wheat traded [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 05:15:24
Monday links: brash market calls
“For the first time in a couple of decades, stocks are now relatively cheap (US, developed markets, emerging) ... system is like a “stagnant, smelly swamp.” (Global Investing) Commodity trading advisors (CTAs [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 16:22:34
Fed?s Stern Optimistic on Treasury Plan to Buy Assets
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Gary Stern said Thursday he is “cautiously optimistic” about the recently passed Treasury plan to buy ... -related investments from the market in a bid to get the financial system trading openly again. Stern ... of inflation, absent a resurgence in energy and other commodity prices.” He added that inflation [more...]
Date: 2008-10-09 10:52:00
HOT POSNER | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog Constant ABC presence Rupert Posner takes a break from hanging by the pool in tropical Poland to chat ... available under any future trading system introduced by President-elect Barack Obama. Bankers are broadly ... that could grow into the largest commodity market in the world. Heavily emitting companies [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 21:19:59
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
How Main Street Will Quickly Feel The Fallout From Wall Street
In case you didn't think you'd feel the effects of the Wall Street meltdown in the short-term, you would be wrong: ... as investors dashed into commodities on concerns about the government’s plan to bail out the financial system. After a wild last hour of trading, crude oil futures surged as high as $130 a barrel before [more...]
Date: 2008-09-22 23:48:06
Sukuk issuance falls 66% in 2008, lowest since 2005
The issuance of new sukuk fell to $15.77 billion in 2008 compared with $46 ... Capital's long/short trading platform, most of which focus on commodities. Because conventional short ... believes the Anglo-Saxon capitalist system has failed [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 05:21:00
Lottery System Development
I've been working on a lottery system based on intuition rather than the more common strategy of analaysing patterns or distributions in historical ... out by 2,3,4,...49 (use the modulus operator when the number goes above 49).From the world of trading ... can be used to forecast future price levels in many products, ranging from currencies to commodities [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 11:34:00
No Shame Crowd Deserves the Gulag
Good Evening: The news flow that affected our capital markets today actually started last night when Fed Ex and Texas Instruments posted negative ... joined this morning by Con-Way freight. U.S. stock index futures were under pressure for most ... were down 2% to 5% with 90 minutes to go in the trading session. Word that the financial aid package [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 02:00:12
Short Term Positives, Long Term Questions
Good Evening: The forces of poor economic fundamentals clashed again today with government programs created to address them ... , and equities that were ahead at day’s end, while those who hold dollars and commodities were less ... just swallow this medicine, create a better financial system, and move on. While market participants [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 02:48:41
Nine trends for 2009
Not mine, but as there have been many predictions across the various blogs, I thought that they might be quite interesting.(1) ... of the credit crisis, however the “fracturing” of commodity pricing is likely to continue with grains ... a 9 million sack shortage in coffee supplies for the coming year. While China’s commodity consumption [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 17:56:05
“Swap” Inventor Blames Regulators for Financial Crisis
David Swensen, of Yale University Endowment investment management fame discusses the current state of the market and derivatives trading ... he’s dismayed by how other traders have so abused his invention and the “complete and utter failure ... for IBM and the World Bank to trade, or swap, payments in different currencies. It was a key development [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 22:12:51
Idiot Year
2008 is over. For many global citizens this year may one day be described as the year of revelation. A full century of environmental and economic abuse along with political intrigue and deceit may have finally come into full view. It seems unlikely that we will continue much longer to accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 12:37:00
DrumBeat: December 8, 2008
Oil rises on talk of auto bailout, stimulus NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Oil prices rebounded from a nearly 4-year low Monday as U.S. automakers neared a deal that would keep them out of bankruptcy and President-elect Barack Obama pledged to stimulate the economy of the world's largest oil consumer. U.S. crude for January delivery rose $2 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 13:37:28
Turning Point?
Good Evening: It was simply getting too easy. For most of the past 10 weeks, market participants have been able to profitably sell every bounce in the stock market. Shorts were starting to print money almost as fast as our Federal Reserve. But once the S&P 500 took out its 2002 lows on Thursday afternoon/Friday morning, [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 06:00:34
Weekly Economic Potpourri November 7, 2008
Every week there are a numerous headlines that are worthy of mentioning but I simply run out of time. Here are some news items from around the globe from this past week.Vancouver approves $100M bailout for Olympic Village developerThe City of Vancouver has agreed to lend up to $100 million to bail out the financially troubled company building the [more...]
Date: 2008-11-08 09:59:00
Why are prices falling? Why does this scare the bourgeoisie?
by Eddy Laing“Credit Suisse chief economist Joseph Tan told The Straits Times that the dramatic fall in prices was due to ‘massive unwinding’ by ... . These speculators - whose bets on future prices drove prices to record highs - are fleeing to safer havens ... (a ‘commodity’ to Marxian economists) is determined by the amount of labor that goes into [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 17:02:15
Weyerhaeuser Finds No Buyers for its Freighters (WY)
Weyerhaeuser (WY) announced late Monday that it has stopped trying to sell its seven ocean-going freighters ... business has held up better as there is a strong demand in transporting commodities, and an ability ... began, when the stock was trading at $58.23. The company will now have a dividend yield of 3.34%, based [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 15:57:00
DrumBeat: December 28, 2008
With gas falling, trucks come back NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- After nearly a year of flagging sales, low gas prices and fat incentives are reigniting America's taste for big vehicles. Trucks and SUVs will outsell cars in December, according to researchers at the automotive Website Edmunds.com, something that hasn't happened since February [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 14:31:34
A Not-So Modest Proposal
Paul Brodsky & Lee Quaintance run QB Partners, a private macro-oriented investment fund based in New York.” > In our sparsely populated office – a beacon of both waste and hope – hangs a framed poster of Albert Einstein and his quote: “imagination is more important than knowledge [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 12:00:28
PREPARING FOR THE APOCALYPSE
There are those who, witnessing what’s going on in the world, are convinced the Apocalypse is on the way. Sometimes I agree. On days when I am bored I contemplate a future dominated by an EMP-blasted earth with no functioning computers or cars (except really old ones without any electronics.) Who would live? Who would die? [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 12:01:59
Downgrades and Downfall, the last story in a three-part series on AIG, published today in the Washington Post makes for some great reading between ballgames.The contracts were flying out of AIG Financial Products. Hardly anyone outside Wall Street had ever heard of credit-default swaps, but by early 2005, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 09:23:51
Setting the Bull Trap
Yesterday I sent you an Outside the Box from Paul McCulley who supports the government and Fed activity (in general) in the current economic crisis. Today we look at an opposing view from Bennet Sedacca of Atlantic Advisors. He asks some very interesting questions like: Shouldn't the consumer, after decades of over-consumption, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 23:00:48
International Forecaster January 2009 (#1) - Gold, Silver, Economy + More
By: Bob Chapman Sunday, 4 January 2009 US MARKETS … A re-inflation is on its way. You can just see it coming. Nuts of taxpayer largesse are being stuffed into baggy little banker cheeks via TARP, to be hoarded until the Fed gives the word. An explosive Fed balance sheet, rampant monetization of treasuries, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 17:40:51
Top 2009 Stock: The U.S. Treasury Bond Bubble
Attempting to escape the clenches of the credit crunch, nervous investors ran screaming toward Treasury bills ... as commodities and housing stocks.You see, most bubbles form because people believe there's a lot of money to be made. But when the frenzy dies, as it did with commodities, prices come down... hard [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 09:09:00
Top 2009 Stock: The U.S. Treasury Bond Bubble
Attempting to escape the clenches of the credit crunch, nervous investors ran screaming toward Treasury bills ... as commodities and housing stocks.You see, most bubbles form because people believe there's a lot of money to be made. But when the frenzy dies, as it did with commodities, prices come down... hard [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 09:09:00
Top Five Causes of the Financial Crisis
1. Alternative Realities: The Black-Scholes Revolution Hatched by two Berkeley finance professors, the Black-Scholes model of pricing options securities took hold in the financial industry in the 1980s. It was known as “Portfolio Insurance” because it purported to free traders of all market risk, at least theoretically [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 00:43:12
2009 Top Stocks: A Bull with Growing Horns
In trading earlier this week, several water companies got off to a great start. Midway through trading on Monday, Northwest Pipe (NASDAQ: NWPX), Layne Christensen (NASDAQ: LAYN), Gorman Rupp (AMEX: GRC), and Badger Meter (NYSE: BMI) were all showing sizable chunks of green.Yet other water industry stalwarts, like Consolidated Water ( [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 08:10:00
2009 Top Stocks: A Bull with Growing Horns
In trading earlier this week, several water companies got off to a great start. Midway through trading on Monday, Northwest Pipe (NASDAQ: NWPX), Layne Christensen (NASDAQ: LAYN), Gorman Rupp (AMEX: GRC), and Badger Meter (NYSE: BMI) were all showing sizable chunks of green.Yet other water industry stalwarts, like Consolidated Water ( [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 08:10:00
2009 Top Stocks: A Bull with Growing Horns
In trading earlier this week, several water companies got off to a great start. Midway through trading on Monday, Northwest Pipe (NASDAQ: NWPX), Layne Christensen (NASDAQ: LAYN), Gorman Rupp (AMEX: GRC), and Badger Meter (NYSE: BMI) were all showing sizable chunks of green.Yet other water industry stalwarts, like Consolidated Water ( [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 08:10:00
DrumBeat: November 26, 2008
Russia’s Comeuppance Any international economic crisis afflicts different countries in different ways, but an unfortunate few experience every painful dimension of it. In the current crisis, Russia is confronting virtually all the negatives at once--sharply declining export earnings from energy and metals, [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 13:53:17
Understanding Options And Benefits Of Trading Options
by Walter Fox With the financial landscape changing rapidly and traditional investments putting people in the red rather than in the black, Options Trading looks less like a risky venture and more like a speculative endeavor that can both ... investors come to the table prepared, and they will approach Options Trading with a system. Options [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 13:22:42
Is the US dollar going the way of the pengo?
From the Wikipedia article on hyperinflation:The largest denomination banknote ever officially issued for circulation was in 1946 by the Hungarian ... and currency trader, guide extraordinaire to the mysterious ways of The Casino (aka international monetary system) -- has reissued his August 14, 2008 Dutch Uncle essay, More On the Federal Reserve [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 18:19:00
Day Trading Training - What Makes The Pros So Good?
by Sam Lockwood Day trading can be an amazing way to make good money, or an amazingly stressful occupation. No matter what some may say, it’s not an easy ride. You have to put some serious work into it. Day trading commodities and stocks is more like a highly lucrative job. You need a number of firmly [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 15:13:47
Dizard: "Put the credit default swaps market out of its misery"
As credit default swaps have come in and out of focus over the last year, I have been struck by the assumption that this product would of course continue to exist. I have trouble seeing their legitimate uses. In theory, they could allow banks to diversify and hedge credit risks better, but once risks rise beyond a modest level, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 07:52:33
Bearish Stock Market Sentiment Continues
Last week's indicator review concluded that "while recent selloffs have not been as broad and sustained as in early October, neither are we yet getting indications of sustained buying interest. Until that occurs, it is premature to assume that a durable intermediate-term bottom is in place [more...]
Date: 2008-11-24 00:34:00
Seeking Andalusia - What Happened to Islam?
“It is enough to know that the economy of all Arab countries is weaker than the economy of one country that had once been part of our world when we used to truly adhere to Islam. That country is the lost al-Andalus. No Muslim territory should ever become non-Muslim…. Let the whole world know that we shall never accept the tragedy of Andalusia [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 18:20:55
Are You Half Full or Half Empty?
A: Which are you? If you are half full, you are choosing to look at the fact that the fed took on a ZIRP policy for rates, threw in the kitchen sink, ... their decision on rates, the DOW was trading at 8,672. Then the following occurred: 1) Fed abandoned rate cuts ... more effectively. As they buy, the newly minted dollars enter the economic system from [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 16:01:47
2009 Top Stock Is Already Looking Up
The lavish praise you see here comes from people just like you.They had a chance to double their money during 2008…making just 17 smart plays.They followed the recommendations of Dan Amoss' Strategic Short Report…bagging gains of 92%…162%…173%…238%…even 462%.And I'm not cherry-picking those numbers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 14:07:00
2009 Top Stock Is Already Looking Up
The lavish praise you see here comes from people just like you.They had a chance to double their money during 2008…making just 17 smart plays.They followed the recommendations of Dan Amoss' Strategic Short Report…bagging gains of 92%…162%…173%…238%…even 462%.And I'm not cherry-picking those numbers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 14:07:00
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