MCX gets nod to begin stock exchange operations

After launching carbon trading and currency futures, the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) ... , has spot and futures trading in 60 commodities with a focus on energy basket and metals. It launched ... Nations mandate. This can be sold either immediately or through a futures market, just like any other [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 06:17:49

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Clearinghouses Volumes To Fall, S&P Says. What Does This Mean For BM&FBovespa?

Standard and Poor's said in a report released Jan. 9 that the global exchange and clearinghouse industry will experience a downturn in volumes and ... billion reais in November (a total of 5.54 million trades,) compared with 122.54 billion reais traded ... by about half from the 13.77 million traded in October. Currency futures traded 4.95 million [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 12:26:19

Bombay Stock Exchange gets SEBI nod for currency derivatives

Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has received “in-principle approval” from market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) ... Committee on Exchange Traded Currency Futures, released by the Reserve Bank of India and SEBI May 29 ... currency futures contracts facilitate easy access, increased transparency, efficient price discovery [more...]

Date: 2008-08-29 07:29:46

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

Thinkorswim- The Best Brokerage

by Walter Fox A time when the financial institutions because of their harsh conditions easily was not getting credit ... categories including equities, the fund currency, bonds, futures trading of mutual funds can help ... . More and more people jumped into the competition, introduction of online options trading systems. They are aware [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 17:17:10

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

Interest Rate Risk Exposure

Interest rate exposure refers to the interest rate differential between the two countries' currencies in a foreign exchange contract ... conditions:* 2 pips spread on six currency pairs.* Providing online trading services without maintenance ... or futures contract. As a side note, arbitragers are investors that take advantage when interest [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 19:58:00

MMTC to buy 15% stake in 4th currency futures exchange

Country`s largest public sector trading agency MMTC is entering to partnership with 4th currency futures exchange and it will invest Rs 225 million ... Capital Services. Jaypee Capital, formed by Jaypee Commodities, will be the single-largest [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 07:25:47

Forex Scam; How forex Brokers Defraud Retail Forex Traders

According to wikipedia "A forex scam is any trading scheme used to defraud individual traders by convincing them that they can expect to gain a high profit by trading in the foreign exchange market. Currency trading 'has become the fraud du jour' as of early 2008, according to Michael Dunn of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 14:10:00

Asian Markets Advance Higher

Nikkei, Sydney consolidate gains while Shanghai, Strait Times manages lower closingStock markets across the Asian region advanced higher for a second ... , or 0.9%, to $40.20 a barrel on London's ICE Futures Europe exchange.In currency trading [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 12:21:00

6 Facts That Give Forex Traders An Edge

Trading currency markets is an excellent alternative for many reasons. Be it currency futures or spot market FX, TradingMarkets Contributor Austin Passamonte steer you away from pervasive myths and sheds light on the true benefits of both markets. [more...]

Date: 2008-08-29 00:52:00

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

ONN.tv's Mark2Market: CME Trader Peter Yastrow Describes Today's Massive Central Bank Actions to Keep Money Flowing

CHICAGO-(Business Wire)-September 18, 2008 - Mark2Market, ONN.tv's newest programming on futures and commodities, goes to the CME/CBOT trading floors every morning for special reports on financial markets and currency trading. On Thursday morning's edition [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 11:58:00

BEWARE Forex.com, Gain Capital Group

Gentlemen, I have been trading futures for a long time and decided to try Forex ... from clients! I never had similar problems in the futures arena, thank goodness. I am trying ten different ... spread on two currencies. This put me at a loss of $1400 from were I was four minutes ago [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 21:26:34

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

Adjustment Phase Will Reveal Skinny Dippers

A: As the first stage of the adjustment is underway in Manhattan, we get our first glimpse of who was swimming naked ... , bought on the currency trade with expectations to flip at a profit, or just scared about the future [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 15:58:30

The Aussie Goes Down Under

Those shrimp on the barbie are getting scorched. The Australian dollar has taken a big hit in the foreign exchange markets after the Reserve Bank ... data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, as of Friday, large non-commercial traders (large [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 14:49:57

UPDATE 1-Shikoku Elec shuts 450-mw oil-fired unit after fire

Japanese utility Shikoku Electric Power Co said on Monday it shut its 450-megawatt No ... lifts ban on export of wheat seeds September 9, 2008 — CURRENCY TRADING SUMMARY – 9th September 2008 ... on U.S. taxes- WSJ December 3, 2008 — S.Korea’s T-bond futures jump on official remark [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 07:21:12

Forex Demo Account

You can open the door to a new future by researching a forex demo account today. With this account you can actually learn about the foreign exchange market and how to trade currency. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 20:36:24

Probe starts on directors of CITIC Pacific

CITIC Pacific Ltd, predicting US$2.4 billion of losses from currency derivatives, said the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission is investigating its chairman and managing ... directors are not aware of any material adverse change in the financial or trading position of the group [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 10:21:34

Gold Investments Market Update - Geopolitical Risk Escalates and Will Lead to Further Safe Haven Demand

Gold has commenced the New Year as it did in 2008 – up sharply in early trading before selling off somewhat. Gold surged (along with oil) ... . Gold Price Rupees per ounce Indian gold futures MAUc1 gained more than 29 percent in 2008 ... currencies so far this morning, gold has given up its earlier gains. The reemergence of geopolitical [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 15:35:50

Get-Well Card from Central Banks Doesn't Cure the Underlying Ailment; Forex Remains Volatile (pfblogs.org)

Today’s coordinated cut in interest rates warmed the cockles of investors’ hearts as though they’d received a personal eCard from the world’s bankers, ... ;P futures reversed a 33-point gain before falling back in to the red once more in pre-market trading ... from six central banks. Since our last report, currency traders have increased demand for dollars [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 17:38:56

Mastering the Trade (McGraw-Hill Trader's Edge) (Hardcover)

by John F ... , options, ETFs, emini futures, 30 year bonds, Forex currency markets, and more Seven key internals [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 09:53:00

I'm Hurting

I'm Hurting by Steven D Fri Oct 24th, 2008 at 08:44: ... to be the currency of choice for cash hoarders. $1 is now worth around 93 yen. The dollar had been trading ... investors and sent world financial markets into a tailspin. The Dow Jones industrial average futures [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 12:48:13

Forex Trading: No Longer Just For Professionals

And wealth management firms have also grasped that playing the currency markets can save their clients money and add an additional slice of returns ... of the US-based financial services company Global Futures & Forex, offers private clients an online ... Stockbrokers, part of Barclays Wealth, the UKs biggest wealth management business, launched an on [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 05:15:09

Disadvantages of forex trading

Disadvantages of Forex tradingLeverage. With huge leverage available to forex traders the danger is that positions which carry too much risk for the ... packages.* Claim Your Bonus * Live Account Contest * Demo Account Contest * Refer A Client * Scalping ... account size can be taken on, leading to margin calls. Effective money management rules must [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 02:55:00

Employment Woes Imperil Stocks? Nascent Rally

ALCOA’S OUTLOOK, JOB CUTS REVIVE ECONOMIC CONCERNS Fresh fears about the labor markets - the visceral manifestation of corporate health, ... to the task of tamping down recessionary troubles. S&P 500 futures indicated a half-a-percentage point loss from the open Wednesday, after Alcoa fell 5% in premarket trading on its outlook. While [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 14:25:35

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

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 29, 2008

Gazprom, Once Mighty, Is Reeling MOSCOW — A year ago, Gazprom, the Russian natural gas monopoly, aspired to be the largest corporation in the world. Buoyed by high oil prices and political backing from the Kremlin, it had already achieved third place judging by market capitalization, behind Exxon Mobil and General Electric [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 14:06:30

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

Online Trading 101 - Basics And Benefits

Trading has been around for the longest time, from since way back in the day in the old kingdoms when an egg was considered a form of currency and ... of knights and kingdoms to today's modern world, trading has caused a storm in the world economy ... is called a commodity, and this is the term being thrown about by traders. Traditional trading was done [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 08:34:11

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

Investors Expect a Respite, After Five Days of Gorging

Several days of gains has reduced enthusiasm for equities headed into a shortened, tryptophan-influenced session, ... sway through the early 1 p.m. close of trading. India’s Bombay Sensex Index has managed to remain ... turmoil,” writes Ashraf Laidi, chief forex strategist at CMC Markets. [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 14:54:24

Quality Registered Institution

In the United States, forex brokers should be registered as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) ... . ForexGen offers a free trial Forex demo account that allows you to test your skills and practice without ... , no swaps and instant account Activation.2. Scandinavian quality with Swiss precision, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 17:41:00

FACTBOX-US healthcare spending hit $2.2 trillion in 2007

U.S. healthcare spending rose to $2.2 trillion in 2007, or $7,421 per person, an increase of more than 6 percent from the previous year, the U.S ... On Banks’ Dollar Purchases In NDF Market Monday August 22, 2008 — JGB futures fall on profit grab after Treasuries dip October 21, 2008 — Philippines rejects bids for 10-yr T-bond at auction July 21 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 06:43:22

Stimulus suspense ends!

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Most doubts on the Stimulus Package II have finally ended. The Government has announced a slew of fresh measures, aimed at putting the Indian economy back on high growth path [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 03:45:00

BDS Media Meme Destroyed: Weak Dollar Doesn't Mean Higher Oil

As oil and gasoline prices rose throughout much of this decade, a popular media meme was that a lower dollar was largely to blame ... culminating in the commodity futures bubble that peaked in July. Yet, since early November, oil ... to that! In the end, there were a number of factors that created the energy/commodity futures [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 17:05:30

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

Bullion metals shine

Gold and silver prices rise for the first time in 2009After three sessions of fall, bullion metal prices ended higher on Tuesday, 06 January, ... -denominated commodities, such as crude oil and gold, which become more expensive for holders of other ... %.On Tuesday, Comex silver futures for March delivery rose 15.5 cents (1.6%) to $11.445 an ounce [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 03:05:00

Another Bad Day Dawns in Asia

As of this writing, the Nikkei is down nearly 500 points. Singapore is least trashed, down 3%, the Hang Seng is down over 6%. The apparent triggers are first, a lousy industrial output report out of China, confirming the various informal indicators of economic weakening there we have tallied, and second, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 04:32:03

The carry trade unwinds and it's not pretty

Just as Japan is starting to unwind its carry trade, a new one might be forming in the form of 1% base rates in the United States ... securities or tea futures. Whoever, she is, she borrowed cheaply in yen, courtesy of Japan’s rock-bottom ... in the past two days on rumours of a Japanese interest rate cut. Even so, the yen was trading [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 11:38:53

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

Bullion metals turn pale

Strong dollar lays its fingerprint on precious metalsBullion metal prices ended lower on Monday, 05 January, 2009 due to the strong dollar. Generally, a stronger dollar pressures demand for dollar-denominated commodities, such as crude ... futures for March delivery fell 1.9% to $11.29 an ounce. Last week, silver has gained 9%. For 2008 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 03:15:00

Why Forex Is The Best Online Trading Game

It is said that investment is the last greatest game left on earth and it is truly warfare in the market place of Wall Street or any brokerage ... trading game there is. So what exactly makes Forex the best? How many markets can boast ... often get done immediately and this has been further augmented with the fact that the Forex trading [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 07:22:22

Importance of Leverage in Forex

Different from Equity trading and Futures trading, Forex trading offers its traders with far more advantages and greater profits than the other financial markets and that too, in a short term.A range of Forex trading strategies are offered ... be known as the opening amount with which the Forex trading account can be initiated.Leverage also [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 02:38:00

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