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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S&P 500 day trading course, market makers squeaking bad news
Federal Reserve policy makers saw "substantial" risks to the slumping economy last month as they cut the benchmark interest rate to a record low and ... 3 million jobs and may cost about $775 billion.S&P 500 day trading course live room emini futures [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 22:31:00
Early Forex Income Engine Student Results
Dear Fellow Trader, I just got a note from Bill Poulos, developer of the brand new Forex Income Engine home study course, ... with trading futures, forex, stocks, and options. Only ... where he shares some actual feedback from some of his new students who picked up the course [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 16:11:29
Early Forex Income Engine Student Results
Dear Fellow Trader, I just got a note from Bill Poulos, developer of the brand new Forex Income Engine home study course, ... with trading futures, forex, stocks, and options. Only ... where he shares some actual feedback from some of his new students who picked up the course [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 16:12:01
S&P 500 day trading course jan 9 employment numbers
S&P 500 day trading course live room emini futures education coach levels of support and resistance for, Http://www.tradingonlinemadeEasy.com with break outs, break downs, point of control in live [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 07:18:00
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
Ross Gelbspan: $350 billion for 350 ppm
Ross Gelbpsan is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and a leading voice in the struggle for a clean energy future ... and, of course, Peabody coal. Forget schemes like “cap and trade.” Trading may represent a starting point [more...]
Date: 2008-08-08 21:55:05
Some Opening Comments October 7 2008
Prices of Treasury coupon securities have retreated in overnight trading as the gloom and doom which coursed through the veins of the market ... . Most European exchanges are posting gains in the 1 percent to 2 percent area. Australian equities ... declined 3 percent as credit fears and recession fears have not abated there. Futures trading suggests [more...]
Date: 2008-10-07 11:53:19
The Best of 2008: A year not to be forgotten
It’s the end of 2008 and many traders are saying “Good ridance!” To them I say be careful what you ask for, because you just might get it ... R? Understanding Open Interest in Futures and Options Trading Crude Oil Prices and the Economic Stimulus ... in the markets. Now, of course, the complaint is about too much. Funny how the pendulum swings like that, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 13:54:33
What’s Investing All About?
Forex trading strategy is also quite different from futures market investing and desired results - other than making money of course - are different ... of stock market investing. Through entertaining anecdotes and practical pearls of wisdom, the book ... . Online stock trading is without a doubt, one of most convenient ways to get into the stock [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 06:02:28
Daytrading Instrument: Forex or Emini Futures?
Received this from a fellow course mate:Thank you for sharing with me so much through the few days of knowing only each other for such a short while ... the futures and forex, I was just wondering if you can help me with some queries which I have in mind. Currently, I am trading in the Spot Forex, which in time I will be moving to the futures market [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 07:27:00
Oil falls again after 12% pop
LONDON, (Reuters) -- Oil fell below $40 a barrel on Tuesday, ... annual fall since futures began trading 25 years ago. It has dropped more than $100 from a record peak ... factors unless, of course, these are directed at the heart of the oil supply system," said Edward [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 11:03:01
Govt Appoints Deepak Parekh, Kiran Karnik, C Achuthan On Satyam Board
The government on Sunday appointed three members to the new board of the troubled Satyam Computer Services ... members will chart the future course of action for the time being," Prem Chand Gupta, Minister ... . Satyam stock had a hit a low of Rs 6.5 on Friday to close at Rs 20 at the end of the trading [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 11:44:02
No Shame Crowd Deserves the Gulag
Good Evening: The news flow that affected our capital markets today actually started last night when Fed Ex and Texas Instruments posted negative ... joined this morning by Con-Way freight. U.S. stock index futures were under pressure for most ... were down 2% to 5% with 90 minutes to go in the trading session. Word that the financial aid package [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 02:00:12
Obama Knows How to Move to the Market
Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, is a former White House correspondent with two decades of experience covering Washington government and politics. Click here for Mr. Brown’s full bio. For a liberal Democrat who made no secret of his Robin Hood economic instincts, [more...]
Date: 2008-11-30 18:00:00
HMS Walmart Warns
StreetInsider reports on Walmart December sales. I will grant one excuse I usually dismiss. The weather was bad in some regions ... futures and the stock tanked in pre-market trading. More evidence of containment not being ... market share or I don't know, Princess Ponies pooping pillow mints. It can only be hoped that bad news [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 12:33:00
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
International Forecaster January 2009 (#1) - Gold, Silver, Economy + More
By: Bob Chapman Sunday, 4 January 2009 US MARKETS … A re-inflation is on its way. You can just see it coming. Nuts of taxpayer largesse are being stuffed into baggy little banker cheeks via TARP, to be hoarded until the Fed gives the word. An explosive Fed balance sheet, rampant monetization of treasuries, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 17:40:51
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
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
Oil Watch: Crude Tumbles on U.S. Inventory Data
Well, oil bulls are going to have to wait a little longer for a sustained crude rally. Dismal U.S ... 800,000 barrel rise. Stock buildup is an indication the economy isn’t using as much oil. Of course, it’ ... is trading at about $60.17, or roughly a $15 premium to February contracts. That kind of price [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 17:55:16
OPEC cuts production, prices fall, Hugo sweats some more
WSJ Blog: Oil Ink: OPEC Slashes Output, Crude Price Falls OPEC did exactly what it promised in Vienna, slashing oil output by 1 ... two years and crude futures fell to $63 in New York. BBC: The cut will take effect from 1 November ... at Newedge, a brokerage firm. “Falling prices will deepen, not lessen, those divisions.” Because [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 12:30:13
Wine and the economic downturn: a sense of paradox
It’s a story about the Emerald Inn in the New York Times that got me thinking about the whole, strange relationship between wine ( ... reaction to all the economic bad news, people have been trading down the scale and buying less ... , thereby offsetting the savings they were apparently looking for:At Wine.com, a large online alcohol [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 06:47:41
Notes on the crisis
I’m standin’ in the shadows with an aching heart I’m lookin’ at the world, tear itself apart — Bob Dylan, ... hedge fund. The charge is not far-fetched: Porsche made substantially more profit exercising options (another company’s options) than it did selling cars. We saw the world’s biggest insurer [more...]
Date: 2008-12-13 21:12:38
Dizard: "Put the credit default swaps market out of its misery"
As credit default swaps have come in and out of focus over the last year, I have been struck by the assumption that this product would of course continue to exist. I have trouble seeing their legitimate uses. In theory, they could allow banks to diversify and hedge credit risks better, but once risks rise beyond a modest level, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 07:52:33
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
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
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
All Is Well In Stepfordville: More On The Pre-Election Chicanery of The Plunge Protection Team
Posted by dandelionsalad on November 3, 2008 by Dr. Ellen Hodgson Brown featured writerDandelion SaladEllen’s post Nov 3, 2008webofdebt.com “The Dow is a dead banana republic dictator in full military uniform propped up in the castle window with a mechanical lever moving the cadaver’s arm, waving to the Wall Street crowd [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 01:37:01
CPI Drops Most On Record, What's Ahead?
For many months now I have been saying the CPI was going to go negative and stay there for quite some time. This was an easy call to make given the plunge in commodity prices in general and gasoline prices specifically.The effect would be even greater if housing prices were properly reflected in the CPI [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 05:05:00
Weekend Freestuff
Free, gratis and fornothing, here we are again with the perfect solution to "Awwww...ahm bored an' ah got nothing ta read" ... . Get yours today.Click this link to apply for your free subscription to Futures Magazine(and I hope ... once you've gained the timely market insight that Futures Magazine magazine provides. Each issue [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 14:19:00
Oil price outlook from Roger Wiegand: Part II
... up in the commodity market to invest, that investors should look at as a general trend? RW: The two best commodity plays for next year, in my view, are gold and soybeans. Corn and wheat are going to be good, too [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 14:33:58
Common Questions About Currency Trading
Although forex is the largest financial market in the world, it is relatively unfamiliar terrain to retail traders ... from other markets?Unlike the trading of stocks, futures or options, currency trading does not take ... .Until the popularization of internet trading a few years ago, FX was primarily the domain of large [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 21:21:00
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
November Jobs Report: Blecch
Egads The worst one-month loss in payrolls since December 1974 knocked stock futures back on their heels, ... the labor force for various reasons. Equity futures across the board are lower. The bond market’ ... as the Standard & Poor’s 500 futures dropped by as much as 21 points before recovering a bit [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 16:41:00
The Global Financial Crisis: A Short Course on Commodity Trading
Due to all the recent global financial strife, DBKP wanted to look at one segment of the global financial sector, commodity trading, and how it fits into the world’s economy. Commodities What is a commodity? Lets start ... products, metals, petroleum, gasoline, heating oil, and natural gas. The term commodity may refer [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 21:18:59
Obama's First Press Conference: Mission Accomplished?
Obama's First Press Conference: Mission Accomplished? Barack Obama used his first press conference since winning the presidential election earlier this week to sound a reassuring note on the economy even while acknowledging that he has limited tools at his disposal to turn things around before he formally takes office in January [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 20:40:17
Salvation in the Cheap Oil Army
by The Mogambo Guru I was standing outside of the supermarket, jostling with the bell-ringing Salvation Army guy for attention, telling shoppers, "Buy gold, silver and oil! The governments of the world are insanely creating too much money and credit to try and alleviate the inflationary ravages of all the previous decades of too much money and [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 22:21:02
No Credito Hoy
The New Year begins with our state no closer to a budget resolution than it was a week ago or a month ago ... systems now to take people and firms paid for by direct deposits and eligible to be paid with IOUs off the systems, because the warrants must be issued on paper.The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 08:10:00
Hans Sennholz: In Living Color on the Monetary Writings of Carl Menger
As readers of the blog know, my undergraduate teacher and mentor was Dr. Hans Sennholz ... ). Sennholz was a critic of the world fiat currency system. And in other books, such as Debts ... successful), I was dating my future wife and life partner, and I found my "calling" with economic argument [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 14:24:02
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
Citadel's Year to Forget
Citadel's Year to Forget Posted by: Matthew Goldstein on December 31 Investors in Citadel Investment Group's two main hedge funds can take solace in the fact that 2008 has finally come to an end. Of course, that won't ease the pain of seeing those two porfolios lose about 53% of their value going into the final week of the year [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 15:16:13
Sunday Reading: Broder on the Republican South
Sunday Reading: Broder on the Republican South FT. WORTH, Texas -- Maybe it's because The Fix is in the Lone Star State for the Christmas holiday but this morning's column by David Broder -- the Dean of the political press corps -- struck a chord with us. The piece starts as a look at how retiring Illinois Republican Rep [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 16:32:00
Just How Bad Was October 2008 ?
Not too shabby a week -- plus 11% across the major indices, with some areas even stronger. Of course, that comes from deeply oversold levels, with stocks peak trough down 27% within October. The key question going forward is whether or not this past week's snapback rally has legs [more...]
Date: 2008-11-01 15:56:53
Morality is class morality
Although its value has been poo-poohed over the years, the concept of morality has not been so easily disposed of. Noted historian Paul Johnson declares that morals are at the heart of the current financial crisis in a philosophical sense. Writing in Forbes Magazine, Johnson says: The financial crisis, [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 21:23:07
Asia Turns Around, For What That?s Worth
If it’s Tuesday, it must be the day for massive rallies ... gains on Tuesday, as Hong Kong put together a year’s worth of gains in overnight trading alone ... on the Aussie despite three days of intervention,” write currency strategists at Brown Brothers Harriman [more...]
Date: 2008-10-28 14:03:11
Why are oil (and gasoline) prices so low?
We all know that oil prices are lower than they were in the recent past because supply is greater than demand. In fact, OPEC oil ministers are meeting this week to try to fix supply, so it will be more in line with demand. All of this seems a little strange, though [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 13:00:00
Volume in Futures and the Stock Market
My approach to trading is based on the objective evaluation of the "Energies" in the markets ... in every trade - for example, you can't use volume to trade the spot Forex market since it doesn't ... in electronic format for home study (previously only taught in my live seminars). Please leave [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 20:29:08
Newly Waived Players
I’ll be keeping a running log over the next week on players who have been waived during this period ... have since re-signed Jones to a 10 day contract The Bucks waived Austin CroshereThe Heat waived Shaun ... Miles to a 10 day contract Spurs waive Anthony TolliverMemphis waive Shaun LivingstonThe Clippers waive [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 21:38:33
