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Date: 2008-12-27 01:04:30
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The Real Election Trading
For the last few days traders have been talking about whether the equity market is “discounting” a win by Senator Barack Obama (D ... Futures Trading Commission, according to Tom Snee, spokesman for the IEM. (Intrade is an unregulated ... near as liquid as even the more thinly-traded commodities, that doesn’t mean there isn’ [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 17:32:29
The Real Election Trading
For the last few days traders have been talking about whether the equity market is “discounting” a win by Senator Barack Obama (D ... Futures Trading Commission, according to Tom Snee, spokesman for the IEM. (Intrade is an unregulated ... near as liquid as even the more thinly-traded commodities, that doesn’t mean there isn’ [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 20:25:00
Checks and Balances: Bailout Style
All you have to do is trust the same people who caused the problem...to fix it ... VIX is above (10 minute chart) the 13 and 26 period EMAVIX futures for December trade at a discount [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 17:10:00
Reprieve
on Page 45: " ... when the death sentence had been pronounced there was a strong chance of a reprieve at the request of the ... to the recent credit crunch.Stock-index futures (期貨) rallied in premarket trading Friday, as did shares ... that it has approved a half-percentage point cut in its discount rate on loans to banks, the kind of [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 07:32:23
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
Discount Shopping for Carbon Credits
Discount Shopping for Carbon Credits By James Kanter ... under any future trading system introduced by President-elect Barack Obama. ... Defense Fund, which strongly favors using trading systems to reduce emissions, have suggested a radical [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 19:11:54
CME Isn't a Hot Commodity, but It Should Be (Stock Watch)
Shares of the world's largest futures exchange operator are trading at a deep discount. [more...]
Date: 2008-06-27 18:14:44
Futures Trading levels and Economic reports for Dec. 17th
*To be removed, please reply with remove daytrading in subject line Dear Trader, I wrote yesterday: The range is wide ( 805- 920) ... has used a variety of operating targets through the decades, including the discount rate and monetary aggregates. The Fed also lowered the discount rate paid by commercial and investment banks for Fed [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 21:13:00
Market crumbles as inflation rises
The market tumbled in a highly volatile trading session as an unexpected increase in inflation shattered hopes of further interest rate cuts by the ... 4,983.72 crore on 5 November 2008.Nifty November 2008 futures were at 2883.30, at a discount of 9.35 points as compared to spot closing of 2892.65. NSE's futures & options (F&O) segment turnover was Rs [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 13:38:00
What Wal-Mart Means
register Wal-Mart Stores‘ sheer magnitude makes the giant discount operator’s results an economic indicator in their own right. But just what sort of signal the world’s largest retailer is sending is an open question. Wal-Mart shares were up 1% in premarket trading and were giving the broader market a boost – Dow futures [more...]
Date: 2008-08-14 12:24:02
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
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
Wall Street braces for 2009’s first full week
NEW YORK – Wall Street will open for trading Monday at a two-month high as investors have grown more optimistic that the worst of the market’s rout ... analysts do not discount that the market may retreat and retest lows seen in November. The next few ... news. Early futures prices pointed to a negative start to the week. Dow industrials futures dipped [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 11:21:47
Reader Mail #69
I liked this article, via Hacker News. Depressed people can more accurately measure reality than "normal" people. What if the reverse is true? If you're better at sensing reality, then you become depressed?Also, such scientific studies are usually blown out of proportion. They were writing about a single carefully-controlled experiment [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 17:00:00
Introduction to Devaluation and Demonetization
The current financial crisis is a great opportunity to teach peace. Wars may be about land, or energy, or power, but they require vast expenditures of money. Americans are beginning to see the Teach Peace bailout grand theft warning is accurate. A JPMorgan Chase executive has confirmed the bailout funds are not to help homeowners but to [more...]
Date: 2008-11-05 05:45:02
Nationalisation of Anglo could actually be a help
The risk now is reputational risk. Credible institutions will simply not want to be associated with an outfit like Anglo Irish Bank About a year and a half ago in ‘The Generation Game’, I wrote that “one of the big Irish banks is simply a leveraged hedge fund betting its own and its clients’ money on overvalued property” and “normally when the [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 08:03:08
Morning Update
Unpleasant Employment Data Sours SentimentMacro-economic worries are once again influencing shares and sending the market lower after ADP reported ... , and markets overseas are mixed. As of 8:35 a.m. ET, the March S&P 500 Index Globex futures contract ... are designed to conserve cash, cut costs, and improve competitiveness.Monsanto (MON $73) is tradin [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 15:45:00
TGIF!
What a disappointing week this has been.Of course we suspected as much when we didn't make our very aggressive 9, ... but it's unlikely to play out strongly today, on a quadruple-witching Friday, when options, futures, options on futures, and single stock futures all expire. We can certainly expect a lot of volume today [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 14:21:00
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
Wall Street braces for 2009's first full week
Wall Street will open for trading Monday at a two-month high as investors have grown more optimistic that the worst of the market's rout might be ... do not discount that the market may retreat and retest lows seen in November. The next few weeks will go a long way in assessing the market's resiliency, even in the face of abysmal economic news.Early fu [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 01:40:00
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
Oil rises above $58 on heating oil, gas futures
Light, sweet crude for December delivery gained 60 cents to $58.20 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Jim Ritterbusch, president of energy consultants Ritterbusch and Associates, said oil prices have been driven recently by equity and currency markets, but it appears some fundamentals are now driving price movement [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 19:10:24
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
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
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
Market snaps five-day winning streak; Sensex drops nearly 5%
Weakness in European stocks and lower US index futures pulled the market sharply lower in what was a volatile trading session ... Minister Kamal Nath after trading hours on Tuesday, 3 November 2008, that the government will further ease foreign investment rules, including those relating to defence production.Trading in US futures [more...]
Date: 2008-11-05 14:13:00
Roger Biduk - Brutal Jobs Report Sinks Wall Street
Roger Biduk writes: U.S. stocks on Friday fell for a third straight session to finish sharply lower for the week, after the government’s much-awaited layoff tally for December confirmed last year as the worst for labor since World War II ended in 1945. “We’re concerned that the equity market can only absorb so much bad news [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 03:36:29
Will Worldwide Rate Cuts Work?
The preeminent scholar on the Depression does not want to be at the forefront of another one ... rates. But a turnaround in equity futures has proven short-lived, and the markets look to be headed ... , which was down 5% prior to the news, was lately higher. Futures turned higher briefly, but that’ [more...]
Date: 2008-10-08 12:53:24
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
"Futures Prices Determine Physical Oil Prices"
It's gratifying when someone takes on a topic I had wanted to address and does a better job than I could have ... that trading in oil futures can't really influence the price of physical oil because it doesn't ... of futures trading. Even better, they should be required to explain in detail how it is that investors [more...]
Date: 2008-07-04 02:09:30
Nader launches e-mailing list to focus on the issues
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader’s campaign has started a new program called Pass It On. It is an effort to send “compelling, well-researched articles about pressing election issues” to Nader’s supporters. The purpose is not only to inform voters, [more...]
Date: 2008-09-19 19:47:35
Crazy English
Letter from ChinaCrazy EnglishThe national scramble to learn a new language before the Olympics.by Evan OsnosCopy&paste from http://www.newyorker.com/Accompanied by his photographer and his personal assistant, Li Yang stepped into a Beijing classroom and shouted, “Hello, everyone!” The students applauded [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 16:39:00
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
1/5/09 (Smoot-Hawley back? Profits drop!)
Traders, Well the first trading day of the year (last Friday) – was a great start ... _______________________________________________Oil – Gaza – Russia - OPEC It looks like oil is moving back into the lime light. The fighting in Gaza is heating up, and while not an oil rich area it is surrounded [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 14:06:00
Reassessing Roubini's Predictions
Unfortunately for Roubini, there is no Nobel Prize in Economic for being the best predictor of global financial markets ... , Nouriel predicted the potential shutdown of financial markets. A day later U.S. stock futures suspended trading after declines of more than 6% at opening tripped the circuit breakers. Nonetheless [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 08:05:00
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
Stock Market Dictionary - E
EFifth letter of a Nasdaq stock symbol specifying that an issue has not met the reporting date for the company's SEC regulatory filing requirements.EAFE indexSee: European Australian and Far East indexEASDSee: European Association of Securities DealersEBIATSee: Earnings Before Interest after TaxesEBITSee: Earnings Before Interest and TaxesEBITDSee: [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 16:36:00
Satyam's accounting fraud spooks market; Satyam plunges 78%
Just as the market was recovering somewhat, India's fourth largest IT firm Satyam Computer's explosive revelations send the Sensex on a southward spiral. Satyam shares plunged a whopping 77.69% as chairman Ramalinga Raju resigned after announcing during trading hours today, 7 January 2009, that the company's accounts were inflated artificially [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 15:26:00
Sensex down 9% in two days as Satyam scandal rattles investor confidence
A massive accounting scandal at IT major Satyam Computer and caution ahead of the US non-farm payroll data for December 2008, pulled the market down for the second day in a row. IT pivotals surged as investors churned portfolio after Satyam's scandal. FMCG stocks gained on defensive buying even as realty and metal stocks fell. Volatility was high [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 13:37:00
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
Oil prices sink further below USD 40
Oil prices fell further below USD 40 in Asian trade on Tuesday in a market plagued by weak energy demand, dealers said. ... sweet crude for delivery in February, shed 77 cents to USD 39.14 a barrel in morning trade after sliding ... in London on Monday. “The market is in freefall,” said Mark Pervan, senior commodities analyst with ANZ [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 09:02:47
CFTC Investigating Whether Big Traders Lied About Oil Inventories
Wow, what happened? The CFTC went from being a lapdog to developing teeth. A little late, now that oil prices are on a forced march downward, but the commission could ... , they can be dogged as well. From the Wall Street Journal: Commodity-market regulators are investigating whether [more...]
Date: 2008-09-04 05:13:24
Stocks Among Undecideds Ahead of Election
FUTURES SAY MARKET UNCERTAIN ABOUT DIRECTION Equity investors head to the polls Monday with the choice: ... of the more-recent past. And the indications out of the futures market suggested that investors aren’t sure ... in valuations stocks have fallen to. Of course, those futures themselves have proved [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 14:10:19
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
Alan Knowles, Haywood Securities: Finding that Elusive Bottom
Source: The Energy Report Haywood Senior Oil and Gas Analyst Alan Knowles says we haven’t seen a bottom yet, ... that are $45 today were $148 last summer, so while the futures indicate current market sentiment, they are not the best indicator of future prices. The contract that we’re talking about right [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 15:31:26
Satyam's accounting fraud spooks market; Satyam plunges 78%
Just as the market was recovering somewhat, India's fourth largest IT firm Satyam Computer's explosive revelations send the Sensex on a southward spiral. Satyam shares plunged a whopping 77.69% as chairman Ramalinga Raju resigned after announcing during trading hours today, 7 January 2009, that the company's accounts were inflated [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 12:49:00
