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 & index futures & 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

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

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

Big Producers Demand Big Share of Shrunken Bonus Pie

Reap what you sow. Over the last 20 years, the ever-aggressive Wall Street culture has moved even further towards prizing, and paying for, ... losses, a small group of Wall Street traders on commodities, currencies and interest-rate trading desks have made huge profits for the banks that employ them. That is setting up a scramble as traders [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 04:33:16

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

P&G says 1Q profit rises 9 percent

... more options of popular items helped Procter & Gamble Co. post a nearly 9 percent increase in its fiscal ... of its earnings guidance for the full fiscal year, facing slower sales amid volatility in commodity and energy [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 19:41:42

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

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

DrumBeat: December 21, 2008

Shadowed by $200 oil It’s not too early to talk about the prospect of $200 oil. That may sound crazy, because crude is trading more than $100 a barrel below its highs from the summer, when it peaked at $147. I recently spoke to a group of local energy economists, though, and they weren’t worried about how low prices would go, but how high [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 14:12:23

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

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

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

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

Monday links: return of arbitrage

We want to encourage all of our readers to check out first poll/book giveaway ... individual commodities.  (FT Alphaville) The gold-silver ratio is out of whack.  (Crossing Wall ... and More also Daily Options Report) Will we see the “return of arbitrage” in 2009?  (Infectious [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 17:51:50

The Death of Ethanol: One Thing Wall Street Saw Coming

Once upon a time, ethanol was seen as the future of clean energy and as leading the U.S. to energy independence ... to evaluate its options. And the company isn’t alone; the entire ethanol sector is getting ... is an understatement; all are trading under their offering prices and were doing so even before the credit crunch [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 10:48:00

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

DrumBeat: October 13, 2008

Growth Economics on a Finite Planet Over the weekend, I asked Herman Daly, the specialist in “ecological economics” at the University of Maryland, about the recent financial turmoil. He pointed me to a short piece he wrote that was posted on the Oil Drum blog a few days ago and that he gave me permission to post below [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 13:20:00

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

Resurgence of Risk - A Primer on the Develop(ed) Credit Crunch

This is a post run just over a year ago, by emeritus TOD contributor Stoneleigh. It was instructive as much as it was prescient so I wanted to give its author a public hat tip. Both Stoneleigh and her writing partner Ilargi at The Automatic Earth have had a consistently, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 14:10:25

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