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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Let Them Eat Treasurys
Good Evening: Today the U.S. capital markets continued the slow healing process that began on November 21 ... . Many options will be considered, but in my opiniion, we’ll need to start thinking long term ... particularly peppy, and our index futures responded by rallying prior to this morning’s open. A drop back [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 05:30:22
Oil and Dollar Plunge, Gold Soars, TARP Out of Cash, Automakers Brace for Worst, A Currency Trade, and More!
by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias Oil hits four-year low… Byron King offers “crude” forecasts Dan Amoss on why Obama and OPEC want higher hydrocarbon prices Dollar decline intensifies… Bill Jenkins on a potentially profitable currency disparity Gold soars… Ed Bugos with new price targets and a short-term outlook Chrysler shuts down [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 18:41:26
BEST STOCK MARKET BLOG POSTS OF 2008! (Clean version)
Dancing on the grave of 2008 before it has officially passed may be in poor taste, but did 2008 care about you when it fucked your 401k account? NO ... is what makes this post special.Daily Options Report - "Who Has That Box Of Plus-Ticks?" Adam speculates ... discusses how changing the rule close to an options expiration creates the maximum market [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 01:10:00
Option Trading And Stock Market Risks
Option trading is not considered a great investment choice for a novice investor. It involves high risk and is typically a quite volatile business ... sources of information you can use to educate yourself before doing real time trading. Trading ... they will come out ahead in their investment. There are fundamental principles in option trading [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 06:12:39
TGIF!
What a disappointing week this has been. Of course we suspected as much when we didn’t make our very aggressive 9, ... but it’s unlikely to play out strongly today, on a quadruple-witching Friday, when options, futures, options on futures, and single stock futures all expire. We can certainly expect a lot of volume [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 12:23:15
The Gurus by digby Newsweek's Michael Hirsh says that although there are many people responsible for out current economic meltdown, we should thank one very special guy in particular: This mess is mostly a titanic failure of regulation. And the largest share of blame goes back to one man: Alan Greenspan [more...]
Date: 2008-09-17 20:26:40
Quotabull
Young man, you have the gift of gab. Keep it up and some day you’ll be President of the United States. — an old Republican to a young Warren G. Harding after his first political speech, according to a New York Times obituary of President Harding; Aug. 3, 1923. I predicted that New Orleans would come back as a stronger and better city [more...]
Date: 2008-08-22 22:30:36
TGIF!
What a disappointing week this has been.Of course we suspected as much when we didn't make our very aggressive 9, ... but it's unlikely to play out strongly today, on a quadruple-witching Friday, when options, futures, options on futures, and single stock futures all expire. We can certainly expect a lot of volume today [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 14:21:00
Got a tip for a post?: Email us | Anonymous form Get PEEK in your mailbox! ... , there's reason to think it could be a lot. And current law means that a lot of oil futures trading is done ... like then Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX), Enron was able to insert language into the Commodity Futures [more...]
Date: 2008-07-28 12:05:05
S&P 500 Stays Bearish, NDX Traders at Exuberant Extreme
Some stocks have had a nice rally since late November - especially precious metals and real estate - but how sustainable is it? ... at market turns. Oh-oh.- Gold, my other fully tested trading setup (see more here), has also gone ... to signal falls in the gold price.- My trading setup for silver is also bearish. In fact, silver [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 01:13:00
DrumBeat: September 27, 2008
Lehman-Backed Muni Gas Bonds Trade for Cents; Deliveries Halted (Bloomberg) -- Tax-exempt bonds guaranteed by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. for a gas-supply contract may be worth little more than unsecured debt after the bankrupt underwriter's commodity unit stopped deliveries last week. Main Street Natural Gas, a financing vehicle [more...]
Date: 2008-09-27 14:11:57
Shocker: Federal Regulators Conclude That Oil Speculators Not Responsible For High Gas Prices
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has released financial data indicating that commodities traders engaged in oil speculation have had little ... driving the future price of oil down. Commodity index funds also have a much smaller share ... of transactions worth billions of dollars between January and June of this year. Commodity futures [more...]
Date: 2008-09-15 14:50:11
Four at Four: A Two-Day Rally? Surely You Jest.
More than a couple of new investors would be forgiven if they were unfamiliar with the concept of a two-day rally ... in trading Friday, those who were positioned bearishly could reap some profits. Options action ... will indeed go up again, even if it isn’t when they would like. Google Options activity was skewed [more...]
Date: 2008-07-17 11:37:00
Munger on Middlemen
Mike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the often-vilified middleman--someone who buys cheap, sells dear and does nothing to improve the product. Munger explains the economic function of arbitrage using a classic article about how prices emerged in a POW camp during World War II [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 12:39:55
OPEC's Oil Outlook
OPEC, the world's biggest energy fraternity, slashed its output quota by 9% (2.2 million barrels per day) on December 17 in a show of supply force. OPEC is worried about dwindling demand around the world, which they say is discounting oil too much. But really, the world's largest, still-legal cartel needs green energy to pull against [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 19:40:59
DrumBeat: June 5, 2008
Beyond gasoline: Prices surge for oil-based goods New York - Besides gasoline, the Department of Energy calculates, there are 57 major uses of petroleum – everything from cosmetics to ballpoint pens, nylons, and even the waxes in chewing gum. That is why the effect of high oil prices is now spreading well beyond the pump, [more...]
Date: 2008-06-05 13:07:25
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
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
The case for oil price speculation improves
U.C. San Diego economist Jim Hamilton has long argued that fundamental forces of supply and demand explain oil prices better than "speculation ... by David Cho, "A Few Speculators Dominate Vast Market for Oil Trading." Hamilton closed his dissection ... recently deemed by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission to be more of a speculator than [more...]
Date: 2008-08-27 16:28:48
Useless T.A.-T.A.’s?
By John Galt January 1, 2009 The question that is the title of this piece has been bothering me since the “mysterious” rally on August 15-17 of 2007. It took me the entire month of December of 2008, that’s right through yesterday, to figure out why the traditional methodologies may no longer apply, at least in my opinion [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 04:35:11
personal finance free ware
personal finance free ware 2009-01-05 16:01 at 2009-01-05 16:01 · Filed under stock market investing Medical malpractice, while rough to accept, ... by the Palmerston Government to help excavation group save for their futures and as a means of raising commodity day future investing trading funds for populace spending. Im conversation about a live [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 21:02:31
Amazing U.S. Debt Benchmark, Auto’s Get Bailed Out, China to War, and More!
by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias Government debt crisis reaches new historic benchmark Solution? Bush announces automaker bailout, Obama “new deal” grows even bigger Chris Mayer on Chinese industrial output… and how it affects your mining investments Market dives on S& [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 22:51:08
The Obama Administration So Far
Considering the fact that Barack Obama hasn’t taken office yet, it’s difficult for him to have made many decisions that are good or bad yet. There hasn’t been chance for him to pursue policy or change the culture of government or Washington. The only thing he has really been able to do at this point, is propose members for his new administration [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 02:10:43
Learn About Commodity Trading
Have you ever heard investors mention speculating in futures of the commodity market and wondered what it they are talking about? While most of us are familiar with investing in stocks, commodities can be an interesting way to have your money make money for you. But first, you might ask what is a commodity? commodities [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 17:43:07
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
International Forecaster December 2008 (#6) - Gold, Silver, Economy + More
By: Bob Chapman Sunday, 21 December 2008 US MARKETS When, in the wake of the Bear Stearns collapse, ... derivatives market with the passage of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, an opaque market, which ... destroying it. They were drawing out huge salaries, stock options, bonuses, golden parachutes, fees [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 17:31:27
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
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
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
CPI Drops Most On Record, What's Ahead?
For many months now I have been saying the CPI was going to go negative and stay there for quite some time. This was an easy call to make given the plunge in commodity prices in general and gasoline prices specifically.The effect would be even greater if housing prices were properly reflected in the CPI [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 05:05:00
Futures Trading levels and Economic reports for Jan 6th
*To be removed, please reply with remove daytrading in subject line Dear Trader, Market has rallied the last few sessions, mostly on thin volume, yet the shorter term upward bias is still in tact as long as we hold above 900 level. need to see the SP breaks and holds above 938 in order to see another leg up, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 21:02:00
Indian Commodity Market
India's rapid economic growth has witnessed lot of changes and developments in each sector of the economy ... and profitable investment avenue for Indian as well as foreign investors is commodities market. My dear readers ... , plantation crops, sugar and other soft commodities. The commodity exchange or market [more...]
Date: 2008-10-10 18:36:00
foreign currency scam
UPDATE: On May 22, 2008, the Congress passed H.R. 6124, the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (also known as “the Farm Bill”) ... a sharp rise in foreign currency (forex) trading scams. The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 ... trading authority and operate pools with respect to retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 11:15:07
BEST STOCK MARKET BLOG POSTS OF 2008!
Dancing on the grave of 2008 before it has officially passed may be in poor taste, but did 2008 care about you when it fucked your 401k account? NO.2008 was a total dick.The best thing you could say about 2008 is that it was a good year for blogging about the stock market. Everyday, some new scandal broke and some significant level was breached [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 03:23:00
Four at Four: Refinery Sensibilities
Most prominent energy names struggled Wednesday, but one subsector had a banner session: refiners. Led by speculative options activity in Frontier Oil, major refiners ended the day sharply higher ... interest. Nearly 11,000 call options at the out-of-the-money $20 strike price changed hands in Frontier [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 12:25:00
S&P 500, Gold in Cash
I updated my latest signals table this morning based on yesterday's holiday-delayed Commitments of Traders data ... signal is based on: (1) the commercial traders, who have sat at extremes of bearish net positioning ... in 2009!TAGS: S&P 500, SPX, gold, COT, Commitments of Traders, derivatives, Black Swans, market timing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 18:43:00
Other Markets (2)
Most of these exchanges operate on basically the same principle as the stock exchanges, ... of futures, for example, is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) rather than ... , today’s computers and dedicated financial media are so broad that information on any [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 08:43:51
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