How to trade commodities?
In my last post, I discussed how commodities have became more and more traded by both institutional and individual investors ... to set up such accounts though, especially through discount brokers such as Interactive Brokers ... much only done through futures. Now of course, it’s still possible to trade commodities doing [more...]
Date: 2008-07-08 10:00:14
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Fundamental Analysis (OXPS, rated BUY)
In looking at fundamentals, the stock has lost >17% of value in a small amount of time ... seems outdated compared with some of the other discount brokers, but when you look at what they give ... is discounting their potential growth. They are heavily investing in futures and opening [more...]
Date: 2008-08-21 15:58:53
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
Hedge Funds for the Rest of Us - Revised
The idea of a hedge fund always made sense ... One Source platform, with no load or fee, and most likely through the other major discount broker mutual fund supermarkets. 1. Long/Short Funds: RYMFX: Rydex Managed Futures Strategy RYSTX: Rydex Hedged [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 12:13:17
YouTubers, Beware: Viacom May Soon Slip You a Subpoena
YouTubers, Beware: Viacom May Soon Slip You a Subpoena (Image credit: Gizmodo.com, referring to the RIAA's relentless consumer suing spree) ... on the economy. Translation: interest rates are going up in the not-to-distant future. The US Department ... Taxes warren buffett Biz Credit Cards Tradeking - Discount Online Broker WebEx [more...]
Date: 2008-07-07 08:10:02
Review Of E*Trade Bank High Interest Savings and Checking Accounts
When most people think of ETrade, the popular online discount brokerage firm with the cutesy talking baby commercials probably comes to mind ... for future brand name recognition. Since its days as a leader in the do-it-yourself stock investing ... a low cost discount broker, the company has jumped into the online banking business. Hoping [more...]
Date: 2008-12-27 08:39:38
Why the Obama-Bernanke Meeting Really Matters
Yesterday, Senator Obama met Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke for a one-on-one meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank ... of the visit and what it might portend for the future. If you’re not aware, let me give you the scoop ... Facilities (or discount window) to broker dealers until January 30, 2009. Access to the TAF [more...]
Date: 2008-07-30 20:38:17
PIMCO's Bill Gross: The Fed Will Keep Lehman Afloat
Bill Gross just appeared on CNBC to crush the rumor that Pimco was diminishing its exposure to Lehman Brothers either by reducing its trading ... is influenced by the Federal Reserve's "temporary" broker-dealer discount window. Gross said ... on a booming real estate market and attendant mortgage boom has raised serious questions about the future [more...]
Date: 2008-07-10 18:29:09
Poyais Futures - Still Available!
Inflation is a terrible thing. Less than two hundred years ago, it was possible to buy land rights in a tropical country for 3 shillings and 3 pence per acre – at a time when the average weekly wage in Britain was roughly one pound. The land in question was in “a very anglophilic region, with already existing infrastructure, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 23:27:11
U.S. Dollar Retreating Against Commodities
Like a giant laxative in the world's monetary system, the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing is starting to have an effect ... . These two are probably not rising because they are commodity currencies. The strength of commodities ... what to your wondering eyes will appear as the Fed charts its new course into the monetary wild? Well [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 12:10:00
U.S. Dollar Retreating Against Commodities
Like a giant laxative in the world's monetary system, the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing is starting to have an effect ... . These two are probably not rising because they are commodity currencies. The strength of commodities ... what to your wondering eyes will appear as the Fed charts its new course into the monetary wild? Well [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 12:10:00
U.S. Dollar Retreating Against Commodities
Like a giant laxative in the world's monetary system, the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing is starting to have an effect ... . These two are probably not rising because they are commodity currencies. The strength of commodities ... what to your wondering eyes will appear as the Fed charts its new course into the monetary wild? Well [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 12:10:00
3 Rules for Today's Markets
I've been asked by several friends, family and readers of this letter... "What are you doing with your money?" "Is this the end of the stock market, of America's empire???" "Are we headed for a great depression? Or even worse, are we headed for a post-apocalyptic version of Cormac McCarthy's best selling novel, The Road? [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 13:46:19
The Government’s Financial Crisis Fix-it Plan Sends Stocks Soaring, Though Some Argue There’s no Quick Fix for this Disaster
U.S. stocks rallied the most in six years yesterday (Thursday) - with traders actually cheering the ticker action from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange - on the news that the federal government is taking steps to shore up the unraveling U.S. financial system and end the global credit crisis. After two straight days of sharp selling, U.S [more...]
Date: 2008-09-19 15:40:33
Debt Rattle, September 11 2008: Confidence and perception
National Photo Co. Vest Test September 13 1923 W.H. Murphy of the Protective Garment Corp. of New York stands less than ten feet from Frederick County, Md. Deputy Sheriff Charles W. Smith in police headquarters and lets the deputy fire a .38 caliber revolver straight at his chest. When the bullet hit, Murphy never batted an eye [more...]
Date: 2008-09-11 16:33:09
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
Stock Market Dictionary - M
MFifth letter of a NASDAQ stock symbol specifying that the issue is the company's fourth class of preferred shares. M1Measure of the U.S. money stock that consists of currency held by the public, travelers checks, demand deposits and other checkable deposits including NOW (negotiable order of withdrawal) and ATS (automatic transfer service) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 16:44:00
How the Banksters are Making a Killing Off the Bailout
Posted by willyloman on October 19, 2008 By PAM MARTENS from Counter Punch, here. In 1897, when 8-year old Virginia O’Hanlon posed her Santa Claus query to the New York Sun, she received a heart-warming editorial response reassuring her that “He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist… [more...]
Date: 2008-10-19 12:33:25
Meredith Whitney Trashes Citi (C), Fannie (FNM), Freddie (FRE): The Complete Maria Bartiromo/CNBC Interview
Maria had Meredith Whitney on again yesterday. Meredith's view of the collapsing financial industry hasn't gotten any sunnier ... : Futures say 33% peak-to-trough, most banks estimating far less, Fannie (FNM) and Freddie (FRE), too ... ME ABOUT YOUR OPINION OF THIS FED OPENING THE DISCOUNT WINDOW AND EXTENDING THAT OPENING TO JANUARY OF [more...]
Date: 2008-07-31 13:50:00
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
December 10, 2008
December sunset What the hell is leveraging. I’ve looked it up and still did’t really understand. This will help. Paddy Hirsh from NPR’s Marketplace explains. http://tinyurl.com/5pcawr. Leverage is just a fancy word for borrowing. It’s often described as a ratio: debt to earnings, debt to capital [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 10:03:02
Stack of Lame Gift Cards after Christmas? Trade and Sell ‘em on the Internet
Christmas has come and gone. You probably already used up all your good gift cards to take advantage of post-Christmas sales ... have the option of throwing your undesired Chili’s gift cards up on eBay too. But again, you’ll lose ... BestBuy gift card futures as we speak. If you’re looking for a more secure investment than gift [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 18:20:52
Debt Rattle, September 4 2008: Slaughterhouse Stats
UPDATED 5.00 PM EDT: Wall Street, DJIA, Sep 4 2008, Closing Numbers Ilargi: I thought I’d open today with a look at the New York Stock Exchange. This is the portrait of little people losing big money. When it comes to economic reality nowadays, and especially media coverage of it, [more...]
Date: 2008-09-04 17:35:50
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
TACTICS AND STRATEGIES - Today until 2012
Dear Friends:Two postings ago, I spoke of some of the many hardships that the declining global economy will be visiting upon us during the course of the worsening global recession (which I would never call a "depression," as this latter term has become Politically Incorrect) [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 14:27:00
Debt Rattle, October 31 2008: Scramble for Pennies
G. G. Bain Scramble for pennies - Thanksgiving 1911. Before Halloween came into its own as a holiday in the US, there was "Thanksgiving masking" Kids would dress up and go door to door for apples, or "scramble for pennies." Ilargi: In Britain, the average homeowner has lost more on the value of his property in the past year than his/her [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 19:52:15
Fed Intervention: Managing Moral Hazard in Financial Crises
"Moral hazard has its costs, but it also has its benefits": Fed Intervention: Managing Moral Hazard in Financial Crises, by Harvey Rosenblum, Danielle DiMartino, Jessica J. Renier and Richard Alm, Economic Letter, FRB Dallas: Editor’s note: Federal agencies and regulators have taken decisive steps to combat the financial crisis that began in [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 20:51:00
Trading Fraud
Winning The War Against Fraud By Andrej Lavrenc - Independent commodity sourcing agent, and CEO of Raw Polymers Ltd. Win The War Against Fraud Buyers, sellers and brokers all share a common enemy: the scammer ... of future earnings disappearing as clients lose faith and move on to more reliable brokers. The good news [more...]
Date: 2008-09-27 01:08:03
cc from a horrible day
Columnist Conversation Chart of the Day Gary Dvorchak 11/20/08 4:46 AM EST Click here for a great chart comparing four major US market bear markets ... the effective Fed funds rate, which is what the futures contract is tied to rather than the policy rate, the futures are less helpful in signaling market expectations for Fed policy, but after [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 23:22:32
Debt Rattle, October 21 2008: Diving For Dear Life
Lewis Wickes Hine Paper Boy 1908 John Howell, Indianapolis newsboy. Makes 75 cents some days. Starts 6 AM, Sundays Ilargi: Yes, they are back. I’ve seen many voices claiming that the bottom is in sight, that from here on in the crisis can be seen mostly in the rear-view mirror [more...]
Date: 2008-10-21 18:27:27
Stock Market Dictionary - B
Fifth letter of a Nasdaq stock descriptor specifying that issue is the Class B shares of the company.B2BAn Internet strategy of dealing directly with businesses, rather than consumers, i.e. business to (2) business.BAThe two-character ISO 3166 country code forBOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 16:31:00
Online Discount Broker
When you trade financial instruments such as stocks, options, funds and futures you can trade them via two ways ... of products to trade on at fairly high commission rates. Second through discount brokers who offer faster execution of your trades at discount commission rates. Online discount brokers allow online traders [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 16:36:20
Online Discount Broker
When you trade financial instruments such as stocks, options, funds and futures you can trade them via two ways ... of products to trade on at fairly high commission rates. Second through discount brokers who offer faster execution of your trades at discount commission rates. Online discount brokers allow online traders [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 18:03:03
Stock Market Dictionary - A
A Fifth letter of a Nasdaq stock symbol specifying Class A shares.AAIISee: American Association of Individual InvestorsABOSee: Accumulated Benefit ObligationABSSee: Automated Bond SystemACATSee: Automated Customer Account TransferACESSee: Advance Computerized Execution SystemACHSee: Automated Clearing HouseACRSSee: [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 16:28:00
Exchange for Physical EFP
An Exchange for Physical (EFP) is the simultaneous selling of a stock and buying of a Single Stock Future or the buying of a stock and the selling of ... Brokers is extending a margin loan against your long position and charging you between 0.15% and 1.5 ... . On an ordinary short stock position, Interactive Brokers pays you a short rebate which represents [more...]
Date: 2008-11-30 18:04:00
Financial Glossary
Someone asked me for a glossary of standard financial terms.401(k) plan - A 401(k) plan allows employees to save money before taxes, and not pay taxes until they withdraw the money. No tax is paid on the investment returns until the money is withdrawn.If you assume a life expectancy of 50 years, the tax deduction for a 401(k) [more...]
Date: 2008-08-23 13:00:00
Stock Market Dictionary - L
LFifth letter of a Nasdaq stock symbol specifying that the issue is a class of stock such as third preferred class of warrants, foreign preferred, sixth class of preferred stock, or preferred when issued stock. LAThe two-character ISO 3166 country code for LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC.LAKThe ISO 4217 currency code for Laos New Kip [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 16:43:00
THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 27 August 2008
FINTAG COMMENT Investment Banks are the next dot com. Having analysed and compared the Investment Bank business model versus Hedge Fund managers, it is clear that Hedge Funds are the future and Incompetent Banks are soon to be relegated to the dot com trash can. It has taken over 50 years for the Investment Banks to be found out [more...]
Date: 2008-08-27 06:16:57
Day Trading Basics: Selecting a Broker
You may wonder if you really need a broker.The answer is yes. If you intend to day trade, then you must have a broker. And it doesn’t matter whether you are trading stocks, futures, forex, or options: unless you are a member of the exchange, you won’t be able to place your orders without a broker.Stock-, futures [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 19:39:00
Refiners rush to store cheap crude
Refiners rush to store cheap crude December 9th, 2008 By Janet McGurty - Analysis NEW YORK (Reuters) ... , like Enbridge, Plains All American and TEPPCO, all of whom have been expanding at the key futures ... Halff, analyst at Newedge Group in New York. Front-month oil futures were running at roughly $44 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 23:29:58
A COMMENT ABOUT THE U.S. FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD
Dear Readers:I depart from my customary prognostications and pontifications ("P and P" for short) to discuss the U.S. economy, and the Federal Reserve Board (the "Fed").In today's NEW YORK TIMES, I learned that the Fed is reducing the discount rate, the special rate at which member banks can borrow from the Fed [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 22:05:00
Stock Market Dictionary - S
SFifth letter of a Nasdaq stock symbol specifying a beneficial interest.SAThe two-character ISO 3166 country code for SAUDI ARABIA.SAIFSee: Savings Association Insurance FundSARThe ISO 4217 currency code for the Saudi Arabian Riyal.SATURNSSee Structured Asset Trust Unit Repackagings.SBThe two-character ISO 3166 country code for SOLOMON ISLANDS [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 16:50:00
Stock Market Dictionary - R
Fifth letter of a Nasdaq stock symbol specifying that the stock has rights.RAMSee: Reverse-annuity mortgageRAPSee: Regulatory accounting proceduresREThe two-character ISO 3166 country code for REUNION.REITSee: Real Estate Investment TrustREMICSee: Real Estate Mortgage Investment ConduitROThe two-character ISO 3166 country code for ROMANIA [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 16:48:00
SEC Halts Short Selling of 799 Financial Stocks — Here’s the List
the list of 799 financial stocks which were banned from shorting I was surprised that the financial ETFs, both long and short/inverse, were not of the SEC’s list. It struck me as very odd that the inverse instruments were still trading yesterday (they were halted for some time) and that I was still able to borrow XLF. If they continue to trade ( [more...]
Date: 2008-09-19 08:45:32
Morgan Stanley buying Smith Barney from Citibank: Why?
In this podcast, Tom Mullooly discusses several reasons why Citibank would consider selling Smith Barney, to their competitor, Morgan Stanley ... , but there has to be some doubt, collectively among Citibank board members that perhaps the future value [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 22:38:31
Online Trading Through Discount Brokers
If you are an online trader, or wish to be so, you can trade markets and products through two different ways ... you to make all decisions your own. Online trading through discount brokers is only suitable ... and who can limit the trading risks. Discount brokers provide traders access to market information [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 15:32:05
Stock Market Dictionary - T
TFifth letter of a Nasdaq stock symbol indicating that the stock has warrants or rights. TAASee: Tactical asset allocationTABsSee: Tax anticipation billTANsSee: Tax anticipation notesTBASee: To be announcedTCThe two-character ISO 3166 country code for TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS.TDThe two-character ISO 3166 country code for CHAD.TEFRA ( [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 16:50:00
Forex Glossary
A Aggregate RiskTotal amount of exposure a bank has with a customer for both spot and forward contracts ... in these markets. Around Used in quoting forward “premium / discount”. Ask Price Ask is the lowest price [more...]
Date: 2008-06-19 06:20:33
