Futures new years resolution + levels and Economic reports for Dec. 31st
*To be removed, please reply with remove daytrading in subject line Dear Trader, Worth reading from our weekly newsletter and written by a Cannon Broker: Futures Traders New Years Resolution by Mack B. Stevens, Senior Broker, Cannon Trading Trading futures is an alluring [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 21:03:00
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Futures Trading News as of 7/10/08
Derivatives and futures trading goes online (The Nation - Thailand’s English news) Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) subsidiary settrade.com, in cooperation with South Korean broker Daishin Securities Co Ltd, will launch ... Futures Exchange (TFEX) begins online trading in SET 50 Index futures. Speculators become largest [more...]
Date: 2008-07-10 16:53:07
Broker, Foreign Exchange Transactions
by Jay Visaya There are a lot of forex brokers to choose from ... with the Commission’s future and the merchants and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulations ... to an actual capital, is an amount of money a broker will lend you for trading. Make sure the broker [more...]
Date: 2008-10-26 19:02:42
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
How To Get Started In Forex Trading
The foreign exchange market (FOREX) offers several advantages to investors. But you need to know where to begin ... such as banks. A reputable broker will be registered as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as protection against duping and abusive trade practices. Open [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 21:00:04
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
Get Started In Forex Trading
Get Started In Forex Trading December 14th, 2008 You may have heard about the foreign exchange market (Forex) ... such as banks. A reputable broker will be registered as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as protection against fraud and abusive trade practices [more...]
Date: 2008-12-14 22:03:55
How To Make A Killing In The Forex Capital Markets
How To Make A Killing In The Forex Capital Markets January 8th, 2009 by WonderBoy Filed under: ... and regulations as the other sorts of investments out there, be it equity, futures and stocks trading ... to a broker’s office just to open an account with them so you can start trading. Pairing a 24 hour [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 10:11:22
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
Thinkorswim, The Best Broker
by Walter Fox There was a time when people have not been relaxed credit financial institutions because of its stringent conditions ... , its customers around the world. They are well-known consultants in the field of futures and options trading ... and found stock option trading and currency trading to be very fruitful. More people jumped into the fray [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 09:09:37
Collect Lots Of Information For Having Effective Futures Trading
Information plays very important role, when you want to get a stronger position in the market ... like internet. On internet there are lots of websites that are dealing in futures brokers firms and guiding ... . If you haven’t much information on futures contract then don’t think that you can get profits [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 03:43:44
Alcoa Cost Cuts Weigh Futures
Alcoa Cost Cuts Weigh Futures January 7th, 2009 by Money broker By STEVE GOLDSTEIN US stocks are set for a lower open Wednesday, with Alcoa's cost-cutting moves dragging futures down. Less than two hours before the start of trading, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were 57 lower at 8893. Read full story Posted [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 12:13:26
Financials Got You Down? CME Pitches Credit-Default Swaps the Safer Way
The market for credit-default swaps is huge–$55 trillion–but was largely unknown to most of the populace until the downfall of Bear Stearns and the ... Mercantile Exchange that handles the bulk of U.S. futures trading. CME is trying to capitalize on the chaos in the market by grabbing more trading from broker-dealers like Goldman Sachs Group, Morgan [more...]
Date: 2008-10-09 16:35:40
Futures Trading levels and Economic reports for Jan 2nd 2009
*To be removed, please reply with remove daytrading in subject line Dear Trader, I would like to wish everyone a great 2009! ... / commodity broker Cannon Trading Co Inc. - home of online ... May you have a successful trading year. More importantly, may you and your loved ones [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 21:00:00
30YR Bond Auction Goes Badly
A: As I said many times here, the fed can NOT control the long end of the curve! ... products in New York at MF Global Ltd., the world's largest broker of exchange-traded futures and options [more...]
Date: 2008-11-13 23:27:12
NY Times: Lehman Filing For Bankruptcy (Update: Gross Sees "Tsunami")
Hat tip readers dd and viv on this update from the New York Times' Dealbook: Lehman will seek to place its parent company, Lehman Brothers Holdings, ... support. Update 6:55 PM Reader Jim Bianco e-mailed this observation on the futures trading: It’ ... the financial backstop would be. Lehman’s broker-deal subsidiaries would not be a part of the [more...]
Date: 2008-09-14 22:53:26
How to Choose a Good Quality Forex Broker | Business News
In the United States, forex brokers should be registered as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) [more...]
Date: 2008-11-16 19:46:44
THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 11 December 2008
FINTAG COMMENT Cash or no cash. I was queried yesterday. Apparently I am not sitting on cash and most hedge funds aren't ... ; not that my investors know - they think I am fully invested. We have the usual index futures, some commodity ... ' boards, hire and retain yes-men administrators and spread their trades around Prime Brokers who don't see [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 06:40:26
Carbon Trading: A $64 Billion Economy And Growing
Josh Margolis keeps a grueling schedule, brokering deals between buyers and sellers and forecasting how government actions could affect his clients ... company CantorCO2e, Margolis is part of an exploding branch of finance in a new commodity: carbon ... going to have a carbon trading system in the near future.” He notes that the president-elect supports [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 06:59:27
Australia CFD Trading- Find a Broker
by TRADERREPORTS As the name suggests, Contracts for difference (CFD) ... , one is more like a traditional spread better where you are trading with the CFD provider and have to trade ... allow investors to take long or short positions, and unlike futures contracts have no fixed expiry [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 18:52:22
SIPC: Lehman To Be Liquidated
How did this little gem slip by unnoticed? Tomorrow at 4PM, Lehman is to be liquidated ... of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Reserve, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ... in connection with a proposed sale of the business of the broker-dealer to Barclays Capital Inc. A hearing [more...]
Date: 2008-09-19 05:00:00
Lehman Brothers filing for Bankruptcy - more Bushenomics in action
[UPDATE: I would add this NY Times article as a preface to this great diary. Julien. And It's not just Lehman -- Merrill Lynch is being taken over ... and futures trading are now indicating a minimum 400 point drop on the DJIA in the morning ... desperately to broker a sale of the bank to anyone. Inside sources have said that the problem [more...]
Date: 2008-09-15 12:05:49
FastBrokers Holiday Bonus Program
FastBrokers, one of the ECN forex brokers that I recommend, ... Disclosure: There is a substantial risk of loss in trading futures, options and foreign exchange (forex ... : The $100 instant credit for a new live trading account is for trading and is non-redeemable [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 15:43:53
Learning All About Forex Charts Before You Start Trading
By Orlando Thompson In this article we will discuss the reason for using forex charts, what they are, different types of charts, ... high (like futures and commodities trading on Wall Street). Wider Forex charts and spreads means ... are strategies that some brokers use to get rid of the promise of tight Forex charts and spreads [more...]
Date: 2008-11-24 08:04:30
Obama to name woman as new head of SEC
The Obama transition's leaky pipe says that the chief executive officer of the Financial Industries Regulatory Authority, Mary Schapiro, ... commissioner. Schapiro also headed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The announcement is expected ... shop in July 2007. It the largest non-governmental regulatory organization for securities brokers [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 00:12:47
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
Using Options to Define and Limit Risk (pfblogs.org)
Jack Walker submits:Here is a contrarian idea to consider in the financial sector using options to help define and limit the risk:Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (IBKR) 24.19. a Greenwich, Connecticut based IB serves both ... services. It engages in order routing, executing and trade processing for equities, futures [more...]
Date: 2008-09-29 12:59:13
quote flow monitor
Hi I found this on the website of boston technologies, originally meant for brokers to know when a quote feed has stopped updating, ... Solutions for Forex, CFD, and Futures Trading Platforms Attached Files File Type: ex4 quotes [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 11:35:48
BEST CFD BROKER- CFD Trading Rules
by TRADERREPORTS As the name suggests, Contracts for difference (CFD) ... allow investors to take long or short positions, and unlike futures contracts have no fixed expiry ... are now mostly online and use electronic platforms, which makes the trading routine a lot faster. CFDs [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 15:43:49
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
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
It's a futures shock for many cos with F&O membership
Trading volumes take a deep dive in the derivative segment of NSE as brokers are now reluctant to fund their clients. [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 02:06:17
Keep Hoping
Even with the hard times, you still would not want to lose hope. You would want to stay positive and keep hoping for a brighter future ... possible way. Firstrade can help you with your investments. It is an online trading service that can assist you in numerous ways. They are also referred as a top online broker who has very well [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 02:47:00
CFD Report Australia- Find a Broker
by TRADERREPORTS As the name suggests, Contracts for difference (CFD) ... allow investors to take long or short positions, and unlike futures contracts have no fixed expiry ... are now mostly online and use electronic platforms, which makes the trading routine a lot faster. CFDs [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 00:00:09
CFD Broker Australia- Find A Broker
by TRADERREPORTS As the name suggests, Contracts for difference (CFD) ... allow investors to take long or short positions, and unlike futures contracts have no fixed expiry ... are now mostly online and use electronic platforms, which makes the trading routine a lot faster. CFDs [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 18:52:59
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
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
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
Simple Winning Method Introduction
I first started trading when I was 15. I was fond of the stockmarket, but due to my limited capital I could only buy one share ... for myself I needed something more volatile with more leverage. I discovered options, futures an CfD ... models could make you very profitable in the long run.Over time, I started to adapt the systems [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 01:53:00
5 Great Tips Any Forex Investor Should Know
There is a whole plethora of things that Forex Investors should know about before they start to wear the gloves necessary for them to handle the hot ... , you are in essence using the power of currency to be used in other trading markets and utilize ... dollars is the minimum. You should also know that putting your money into a broker’s account gives [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 12:39:42
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
CDS Too Risky for CME Trading, Key Members Say
In theory, moving credit default swaps from over the counter trading to exchange trading should reduce systemic risk ... be (in theory, old contracts could be "novated" in favor of new ones). CDS suitable for exchange trading ... can realistically support. Moreover, they contend that putting together CDS and futures under the same [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 08:37:57
The Coming Regulatory Revolution
As participants in the banking, futures, securities and insurance industries know, traditional US administrative procedure is cumbersome, ... . Nor will the CFTC assure that futures markets operate in an orderly fashion, letting the private National Futures Association do it alone. State banking and insurance regulators are out, a new [more...]
Date: 2008-07-10 14:14:06
Four at Four: Trouble at the Head of the Class
Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan Chase have been the A students of the financial-services industry since the start of the credit crunch — and ... shares, noted Rebecca Engmann Darst of Interactive Brokers. Implied volatility in Goldman options ... % and 0.52%,” they wrote. gold For gold futures, August is turning out to be the cruelest month [more...]
Date: 2008-08-12 11:03:00
The economy
CNN By Stephen Gandel and Paul J. Lim Last Updated: October 9, 2008: 12:29 PM ET If you’re watching the news and scratching your head wondering what bomb hit the economy, you’re certainly not alone. It’s rough out there. People are losing their jobs, retirement dreams are going up in smoke and personal wealth is plummeting [more...]
Date: 2008-10-11 18:40:36
Is it Easy to Make Money From the Forex Capital Markets?
You probably won’t find many investors claiming that any investment opportunity is easy, ... that are structuring the other sorts of investments out there, be it equity, futures and stocks trading ... , opening up an account and start building your portfolio right away. Pairing a 24 hour investment [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 05:30:43
DrumBeat: December 31, 2008
The Peak Oil Crisis: Civil Unrest Before grappling with 2009, it might be useful to remind ourselves that there is a dark side to what lies ahead. There was a little flurry in the news last week when it was discovered that the Army War College had released a report talking about preparing for civil unrest in the U.S [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 13:58:02
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
Bearish Stock Market Sentiment Continues
Last week's indicator review concluded that "while recent selloffs have not been as broad and sustained as in early October, neither are we yet getting indications of sustained buying interest. Until that occurs, it is premature to assume that a durable intermediate-term bottom is in place [more...]
Date: 2008-11-24 00:34:00
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
