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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 &amp; index futures &amp; 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

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

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&amp;P 500 took out its 2002 lows on Thursday afternoon/Friday morning, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 06:00:34

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

Monday rumors here

Monday rumors here December 29, 2008 · Filed Under News · Comments Off Hello. Our server is being updated, so for this morning the InsideHoops ... , whose veteran savvy and skills, along with his expiring contract, have made him a hot commodity ... in trading for veteran forward Joe Smith. The much-travelled Smith is a coveted player because [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 16:36:22

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

DrumBeat: December 18, 2008

Oil drops 9 pct as demand outlook overshadows OPEC NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. crude prices dropped more than 9 percent to $36 a barrel Thursday as slumping demand and swelling U.S. inventories offset OPEC's record supply cut agreement. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries on Wednesday agreed to cut output by 2 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 13:42:11

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

Date: 2009-01-11 08:10:00

2009 Top Stocks: A Bull with Growing Horns

Date: 2009-01-11 08:10:00

How To Cope After Loosing Your Job

by katie George Sincerely speaking, dealing with the impact of job loss takes some time to leave, but the easiest way to recover from this trauma is to accept the reality however unpleasant it may be by investing your time in some activities that will make you live your dream and become what you plan to be in life [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 13:49:11

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

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

Only In Philadelphia

Would fans spend years belittling Pat Burrell for his perennial under-performance, only to scoff at the idea of trading him for a two-time World Series-winning, first ballot Hall ... doesn't work out, you acquire a greater bargaining chip and commodity in Ramirez. He either helps [more...]

Date: 2008-07-30 16:34:00

DrumBeat: September 5, 2008

U.S. highway fund crushed by cutback in driving NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- An unprecedented decline in driving will deplete the federal Highway Trust Fund by the end of September prompting the government to ask Congress for an $8 billion emergency infusion Friday. Gasoline sales are crucial to maintaining the nation's highway infrastructure [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 14:22:45

The economy

CNN By Stephen Gandel and Paul J. Lim Last Updated: October 9, 2008: 12:29 PM ET If you’re watching the news and scratching your head wondering what bomb hit the economy, you’re certainly not alone. It’s rough out there. People are losing their jobs, retirement dreams are going up in smoke and personal wealth is plummeting [more...]

Date: 2008-10-11 18:40:36

DrumBeat: December 9, 2008

Oil and OPEC: Can the Cartel Possibly Cut Production Enough? Just how daunting is OPEC’s challenge to rein in falling oil prices? Beyond its control, if economist and oil-market analyst Philip Verleger is right. Mr. Verleger, a former Carter administration official, academic, and energy-industry consultant, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 13:44:44

DrumBeat: October 21, 2008

As Oil Prices Drop, OPEC Ponders Tough Solutions At the beginning of the year, OPEC producers felt confident that strong economic growth and tight supplies would keep oil prices high. When oil crossed the $100-a-barrel threshold in February, the cartel’s president blamed speculators and said there was not much OPEC could do [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 13:15:19

Winter Meetings 2008: Dealing with a Deadline

Thursday is the final day of the Winter Meetings and Kevin Towers told the San Diego Union-Tribune that he " ... about trading for an outfielder again. The Sun-Times reported the Cubs have not made formal offers ... and Mark DeRosa Mark DeRosa has become a hot commodity around the league after his name was leaked [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 07:50:32

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

Date: 2009-01-10 14:07:00

2009 Top Stock Is Already Looking Up

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

Pimping For The Saudis?

I have written repeatedly when anti-Semitism boils to the top it suggests the world is sick and this sickness has eventually led to serious events - even wars.I have been very specific about my belief that war was imminent and wrote this as recently as several weeks before the new one began between Hamas and Israel [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 04:48:00

How To Figure Out The Best Time To Get Into Forex Trading

The recent financial calamity has made it tough times for investors, and indeed these are bearish times for investors everywhere ... and futures - the traditional investment choices for making money. Those of us who have been trading ... be done almost anywhere and access to its mainframe and different Forex trading systems means [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 21:19:09

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