Oil Nears $100 — On the Way Down.

For a time, it looked as if the next round number of significance for oil was $200 a barrel, but unless something quite spectacular occurs, ... Consumers started to change their habits a bit,” says Scott Magnuson, commodity trading advisor at MF Global. David Aleman, senior trade analyst with Grand Central Trading Co. in Newport Beach, Calif., [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 16:13:40

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Managed Futures Funds Gain in Popularity and Performance

Excellent article from MarketWatch.  Of course to us it’s just preaching to the choir ... of negative performance. Managed Futures funds (also referred to as Commodity Trading Advisors or CTAs ... , commodity futures and currency markets. Managers who have done well to- date this quarter have generally [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 23:09:12

Remember $50 a Barrel Oil? It Has Returned.

Remember $50 a Barrel Oil? It Has Returned. Posted by David Gaffen ... , falling to one-third of that price in recent trading. Scott Magnuson, commodity trading advisor at MF Global, says oil could eventually settle into a trading range in the $45 to $50 area, but to date [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 15:03:47

DC’s Cosa Nostra

Judah Freed of examiner.com writes~ “Obama last week tapped Mary Schapiro to lead the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ... Gensler to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Instability in the commodities markets ... financial advisor to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Gensler has not yet shown to critics [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 06:54:25

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

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

Trading Post Brokerage now a CTA

It’s been a busy holiday season – the busiest I think I’ve ever had with my young family ... as a Commodity Trading Advisor. ... . It happened under the radar a couple of weeks ago, but Trading Post Brokerage Services, in addition [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 07:54:37

A Look Back to 2008 and Forward to 2009

I’d like to wish everyone a happy New Year. It’s incredulous that we are now in 2009 ... (IB) and Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA). The number of brokerage relationships also doubled ... . This is a year that I hope you come closer to more of your trading goals. I would like to thank [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 18:39:00

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

Waiting for Gustav

Investors in energy markets are nervously watching the path of Gustav, ... , commodity trading advisor at MF Global. “Now, markets are nervous, so it’s a reason to buy ... at Alaron Trading. “With demand already being poor [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 17:30:06

Oh, and Oil Is Rallying Again

The surest path to an oil-market rally is through the road that leads from Tehran to Jerusalem, with perhaps a side trip to Lagos. [ ... once again,” says Scott Magnuson, commodity trading advisor at MF Global. Nigeria is in the mix [more...]

Date: 2008-07-11 14:28:03

Managed Futures Shine in 2008 Massacre

Managed futures funds or Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) ... % gain for the CSFB/Tremont Managed Futures Index. Only dedicated short-sellers have outpaced CTAs ... as margins collapse and assets nosedive. It’s a different story altogether for managed futures this year [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 15:14:05

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

Investors Smitten With CTAs, Sour On Hedge Funds

Commodity trading advisors have outperformed their hedge fund counterparts through the financial crisis and investors have taken notice. read more [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 00:07:00

Investment Banks, By the Numbers

At the beginning of 2007 the five major investment-banking firms (not including those, such as J.P. Morgan Chase & Co ... tons, both on bets in currency and commodity markets, and on the trading of those assets ... billion Merrill Lynch financial advisors, second quarter 2008: 16,690 Bank of America financial [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 15:09:09

Morning Brief: U.S. and Iraq nearing troop agreement

Morning Brief: U.S. and Iraq nearing troop agreement Thu, 08/21/2008 - 9:54am Top Story Khalid Mohammed - Pool/Getty Images U.S ... of speculators appear to rule the oil markets. According to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ... for the New York Times Magazine. Obama advisors Richard Clarke and Susan Rice slammed "quick-draw [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 13:05:11

Obama's team

DOMESTIC TEAM Ray LaHood Transportation Secretary Hilda Solis Labor Secretary Ron Kirk U.S ... Dan Tarullo Member, Federal Reserve Board Gary Gensler Commodity Futures Trading Commission ... D. Romer Director of the Council of Economic Advisors Melody C. Barnes Director of the Domestic [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 10:10:45

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

Population Bombs

Try as he might, Ross "every sperm is sacred" Douthat cannot locate a "key insight" about population growth in Ehrlich's book ... to fall in price unto the end of time, which is why trading in commodity futures is performed ... it is no less than John Holdren, Barack Obama's new science advisor, who claimed to have found [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 16:27:00

Listen to this article

Homosexual brain resembles that of opposite sex: study PhysOrg Blogger arrests hit record high BBC ... about Clinton corruption too (please, the commodity trading, the sale of the Lincoln bedroom, the list goes ... of the CIA who was also given a two star general rank as an advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff [more...]

Date: 2008-06-17 05:43:51

Mind Games of Trading (Paperback)

Mind Games of Trading by Stephen Mepstead Review & Details Buy Mind Games of Trading Now Editorial Reviews Product Description " ... appointed in 1993, through to 2001, as trading advisor and consultant to M.A.M. He was a member ... No matter what markets you are turning your attention to: financials, equities, commodities, forex [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 08:29:00

Predicting the grain market is like checking the chicken entrails

If you drive down state Route 46 north of the Eastwood Mall, there used to be a sign for a “reader and advisor.” You see one of those once in awhile ... . Now that we are back in the fours on futures, we can look for that next 50 cents, or we can expect ... now is that we have lost demand. All commodities, farm and nonfarm, are trading lower. Gas is [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 07:58:13

Commodities bull market not over, says Skarica: Part I

Largest moves always at the beginning and the end David Skarica, author of the Addicted to Profits newsletter, ... inflation, a super pop in gold stocks, and the demise of an empire. A financial advisor who earned ... and discovered that there’s a similar trading pattern when you reach the true bottom. A panic like we saw [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 18:22:12

Open the Online trading account of Karvy

Karvy Fortune a business franchisee of Karvy Stock Broking Ltd, ... such as stock, commodities and insurance broking, investment banking, mutual funds distribution ... Advisor. http://www.karvy.com/v2/fortune/index.asp [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 10:06:40

in Financial Press | Short Selling | Trading There were a sew of articles in the papers today about just how much money those damned shorts are ... Partners I, from various commodity-related investments, among other areas. It isn't necessarily ... by Spitalfields Advisors, the London-based firm specializing in securities lending, show. Almost [more...]

Date: 2008-07-24 16:26:57

Capitulation Nation

There will not be a sign like this to let you know it is safe ... Advisors. Some of this may be taking place — high-flying agricultural and commodity-based stocks ... Index, or the VIX, to levels above 30, suggesting heightened worry. Of late the VIX was trading below [more...]

Date: 2008-07-08 09:28:00

The cities are getting desperate…

Creative borrowing catches up with California cities Financing schemes that sidestepped voter approval have put local governments deeper in hock ... . The city had tried, and failed, to get voters to approve a bond measure for street repair ... or credit lines to stay current, records show. That’s up from nine in 2006, according to the bond industry’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 19:04:29

When Folk Aren’t Sued-Then it Tells Me it must all be True………

Reptiles Well i have no idea- but had someone tried to tell me ten years ago that Westminster was in the clutches of a fabian marxist fifth column i’d have laughed…… The Windsor wealth The Windsors are wealthy beyond description. The Queen’s title of the ‘richest woman in the world’ hardly tells the story and no wonder Prince Philip calls [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 19:30:59

Don't We Deserve to Know?

Somebody has wrecked a lot of people's lives. Somebody has walked away with an enormous amount of plunder. Somebody is undoubtedly sitting atop vast stores of looted wealth waiting for their opportunity to pounce as soon as everything bottoms out and parlay their ill-gotten gains into ever greater megawealth [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 20:14:48

Four at Four: Fickle and Confused

It’s all about perception, which is why a 360-point tumble in the Dow doesn’t appear so bad when compared with the prism of an 800-point drop earlier in the trading day. The last hours of trading lifted markets from their nadir ... be its own animal here, but it has something in common with the others: a reliance on commodity-related [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 11:40:00

Tough Road Ahead for New Economic Appointees

On Thursday, President-elect Barack Obama introduced three top financial appointees who will help him with the unenviable task ... of greed and scheming that has led us to this day of reckoning,” as Obama put it. The New York ... and Daniel K. Tarullo, to leading economic posts. Mr. Gensler, who will head the Commodity Future [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 02:22:34

More on Gold and Silver Backwardation and Manipulation (5/5)

“Gold going to permanent backwardation means that gold is no longer for sale at any price, whether it is quoted in dollars, yens, euros, or Swiss francs… To put it differently, all offers to sell gold are being withdrawn.” - Dr. Antal Fekete by Jake, the Champion of the Constitution Originally published December 14, 2008 at http://www [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 22:25:25

Debt Rattle, November 30 2008: How to Build a Lifeboat

National Photo Co. Mack Sennett Girl 1919. Actress Marvel Rea, one of film producer Mack Sennett's well-rounded "bathing girls" Stoneleigh: Yesterday we talked about why we are facing deflation and today I wanted to review and explain the suggestions we have made previously for dealing with a deflationary scenario [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 20:00:51

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

Dandelion Salad by Petrino DiLeo http://socialistworker.org September 18, 2008 Petrino DiLeo looks at how politicians of both parties allowed an unregulated shadow banking system to take shape. IT’S UNTHINKABLE. The United States–the paragon of the “free market” and loudest proponent of neoliberal policies such as free trade, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-21 22:09:19

The four horsemen for hire

War, hunger, poverty and sickness will stalk humanity if the world fails to tackle climate change, ... in what cannot be a coincidence – we have the government's "global warming advisor" warning ... one component of the raft of extra costs. The other major element is the EU's emission trading scheme which [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 02:17:00

2008: Annus Horribilis, RIP

I meant to take yet another Friday away from my writing, but as I am researching for next week’s annual prediction issue, there is so much material that begs to be covered that I thought I would put out a short letter with 3 or 4 points as a preface to my prognostications of next week [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 12:42:15

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

Gold Sale Spurs Manipulation Talk

MarketWatch is reporting Gold Sale Spurs Manipulation Talk Recent heat from Congress and regulators, along with public speculation, over whether commodity prices are being manipulated has also reached gold pits, where the debate ... , an investment advisor at Sitka Pacific Capital Management, in an online blog post on Wednesday. Banks [more...]

Date: 2008-08-30 06:21:11

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

Japan Nikkei & Australia ASX Plunge Biggest In History

Australian Stocks Worst Week Since 1987 Crash In the land down under, Australian Stocks Plunge, Set for Worst Week Since 1987 Crash ... has given back all of its gains since 2003. So much for the idea that commodity exports would keep ... in futures trading. "It's certainly capitulation and panic mode," said John Vail, who helps oversee [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 09:33:57

Baruch College’s Schwartz Institute Featured in Higher Education Magazine Change-’Improving Communication is Everyone’s Responsibility’ by Fara Warner

In 2003, Terrence Martell, a finance professor at the City University of New York’s Baruch College, encountered a classroom of 80 seniors who could navigate the complex intricacies of the futures markets and commodities trading. But when he asked them to write a report explaining to a commodity [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 17:12:05

More Top Economic Appointees

More Top Economic Appointees By Helene Cooper CHICAGO—President-elect Barack Obama is naming two former Clinton administration economic ... to Democratic Senator Paul Sarbanes of Maryland, to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ... and Exchange Commission, at a press conference in Chicago Thursday morning. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 15:52:17

Economic Potpourri December 26, 2008

The barrage of noteworthy economic news continues unabated. I took a lot of time off posting Christmas Eve and Christmas ... ., the largest U.S. life insurers, declined in New York trading on concern that losses on commercial ... at 4:02 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. Prudential, based in Newark, New Jersey [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 11:32:34

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

The Measure of a Maverick, Pt 1.

Guess who finally took his finger out of his ass and stuck it in the breeze. Rarely have I seen or heard a candidate do a 180° so quickly, and then act as though the skid-marks and the smell of burning rubber aren't obvious to just about everyone. But then came candidate John McCain (circa 2008) [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 18:15:56

The Financial Fire Trucks Are Gathering

The Financial Fire Trucks Are Gathering “It will therefore be crucial that you see the world anew. That means looking from the outside in to reanalyze much that you have probably taken for granted. This will enable you to come to an understanding. If you fail to transcend conventional thinking at a time when conventional thinking is losing [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 11:58:29

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

Who let the oil market be manipulated?

For anyone who believes that speculation by energy traders explains at least a portion of the run-up in oil prices, the announcement that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating oil market ... some commodity trading exchanges to operate without oversight while others must report what's going [more...]

Date: 2008-05-30 15:51:47

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