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Date: 2008-12-17 02:29:00

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Comments on Jason's Volatility System

Jason from the Angry Investor blog has proposed a semi-mechanical volatility system in both my chatbox and his blog here - http://theangryinvestor ... to comment on a global and highly liquid trading platforms such as the Dow Jones Futures. The first ... .blogspot.com/2008/12/blog-capsule-my-dow-jones-futures-for.htmlI thought it would be a good idea [more...]

Date: 2008-12-07 00:52:00

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

CME Group: Long Call Spread Idea (pfblogs.org)

Daniel Jones submits:CME Group (CME) operates self-regulatory futures exchanges, CME, NYMEX and CBOT ... facilities consist of its CME Globex electronic trading platform and open outcry trading floors, as well ... . The company offers an array of products available across various asset classes, including futures [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 12:36:26

In the loophole

By Kate Sheppard On Sunday, Barack Obama promised to end unregulated oil speculation and close the "Enron loophole," ... that was included in the Commodities Futures Modernization Act in 2000 that exempted energy trading on electronic platforms from regulation. Democrats say that the measure was added to the bill by former Sen. Phil [more...]

Date: 2008-06-23 17:58:38

ForexGen | Euro / US Dollar Breaks Out of Range, Aims Higher

The Euro raced higher against the US Dollar in early New York trading hours as forex markets fell in with a rebound in risk appetite fueled by the ... technical analysis tools. ForexGen Trading platforms are stable, secure and characterized ... and US index futures sharply higher just before the opening bell on Wall St, while forex traders [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 10:57:13

Back to the Future, Futures Edition

Senator Thomas Harkin (D-for-don’t even need to ask, IA) ... .  This heterogeneity can–and almost certainly does–make it efficient for multiple, differentiated trading platforms ... has introduced legislation that would require all derivatives trading activity to take place [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 00:52:50

Gaming and Investing

A new online game has been brought to my attention, it’s called Wall Street Survivor, ... with a simulated, risk-free platform designed to help individuals take control of their financial futures. Utilizing the web’s sophisticated trading simulation engine, Wall Street Survivor enables users [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 14:52:38

Wall Street Survivor - Virtual Stock Portfolios

A new online game has been brought to my attention, it's called Wall Street Survivor, ... with a simulated, risk-free platform designed to help individuals take control of their financial futures. Utilizing the web’s sophisticated trading simulation engine, Wall Street Survivor enables users to build [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 14:17:00

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

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

Lazarus Lives!  GOP Blocks Dems “Windfall” Tax Plan

Recent speculation to the contrary, the Republican Party is not dead ... futures markets and open the way for federal regulation of traders who are based in the United States but use foreign trading platforms. The measures are designed to reduce market speculation. _Make [more...]

Date: 2008-06-10 17:05:05

CFD Trading- Contracts for Difference

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 23:54:04

Infoworld’s 10 Future Shocks for the Next 10 Years: The Superstruct Game

Marking Infoworld’s 30th birthday 9/23/08 their staff and IDG review the series of past future shocks “from the ascent of the personal computer to ... judgements about risk levels built into trading algorithms and platforms failed to highlight the serious [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 19:33:36

Report: German Dax, NYSE considering fusion

Report: German Dax, NYSE considering fusion December 7th, ... platform where traders can deal in stocks, options, futures, commodities and corporate bonds across two ... in an advance release of its Monday edition. Trading would based in New York, while derivatives would remain [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 20:51:02

Trading the Exchanges: Buying CME Group

CME Group (CME) has lost more than half of its market value over the past three months and the stock price has cratered by nearly three-quarters ... stakes in the Company's new CDS platform while it awaits SEC approval to begin trading. Meanwhile ... at less than two-thirds of book value (0.66) despite its position as the world's largest futures [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 10:47:38

The Rest of the Cabinet: Gut Reactions to Obama’s Picks

Obama delivered a slew of nominee announcements over the last week, so many it is impossible for me to give my usual attention to each, researching and weighing the nominees’ records on salient issues. Instead, armed with the New York Times, my gut, and a willingness to speculate wildly, I am offering a brief synopsis and opinion of each nominee [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 12:30:04

5 Important Things All Forex Investors 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 ... and they may vary greatly from one brokerage to another. If you are dealing with a private broker ... dollars is the minimum. You should also know that putting your money into a broker’s account gives [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 19:19:34

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

Advertising is the Medium or Distributed Broadcasting

Google just announced a deal with Family Guy ... to extract maximum value from its ad platform. It has already released Google TV and Print and Radio Ad ... - it was the transaction medium. In fact, it was market crazy. It loved to create trading platforms. It announced [more...]

Date: 2008-07-01 02:17:13

DrumBeat: September 5, 2008

U.S. highway fund crushed by cutback in driving NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- An unprecedented decline in driving will deplete the federal Highway Trust Fund by the end of September prompting the government to ask Congress for an $8 billion emergency infusion Friday. Gasoline sales are crucial to maintaining the nation's highway infrastructure [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 14:22:45

Transition

Impeachment call for Blagojevich 8 Jamuary Daschle floats through Senate hearing (Politico) Members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee treated Obama’s pick for health and human services secretary with the deference and collegiality they often show to one of their own. Conyers: Gupta not up to S.G [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 19:00:02

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

Baruch College’s Schwartz Institute Featured in Higher Education Magazine Change-’Improving Communication is Everyone’s Responsibility’ by Fara Warner

In 2003, Terrence Martell, a finance professor at the City University of New York’s Baruch College, encountered a classroom of 80 seniors who could navigate the complex intricacies of the futures markets and commodities trading. But when he asked them to write a report explaining to a commodity [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 17:12:05

DrumBeat: September 4, 2008

Gulf Coast Faces Sea Level-Sinkage Double Whammy Hurricane Gustav has been a harsh reminder that it's only the whim of a hurricane track, a few miles this way or that, which can make the difference between a close call and another Katrina-like catastrophe for New Orleans and other Gulf Coast communities [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 13:35:06

DrumBeat: September 16, 2008

Oil at 7-month low on Wall Street woes Crude futures fall more than $4 a barrel as economic concerns fuel market fears that demand for energy will not recover any time soon. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Oil prices settled at a seven-month low Tuesday as the meltdown on Wall Street pulled the oil market's focus to the economic slowdown that has [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 14:05:01

McCain Aide Created 'Enron Loophole'

Editor's Note: On Wednesday evening, Keith Olbermann, the host of MSNBC's "Countdown," reported the findings of a "Countdown investigation" ... its proposed regulation of energy futures trading, a market that was famously abused when Enron ... into the Commodities Futures Modernization Act that exempted from regulation energy trading on electronic [more...]

Date: 2008-06-19 14:00:00

The Smoking Gun

As Bill Gates closed the door for the final time Friday on his ex-office (Ballmer takes over Monday) the rhetoric about continued one day a week doesn’t match the reality. Whether you believe Bill will have an ongoing role in Office and Windows futures, I bet most of Bill’s input is already [more...]

Date: 2008-06-28 20:28:27

Myths and falsehoods about oil policies

In reporting on high gas prices and initiatives that have been proposed to address the issue, the media have repeated or failed to challenge several myths, falsehoods, and claims contradicted by government agencies. Many of the media-advanced myths and falsehoods have promoted the notion that lifting the current moratorium on offshore drilling [more...]

Date: 2008-08-14 16:00:28

Slouching Toward a Swaps Clearinghouse

Jacob Bunge reports: NYSE Euronext is working to register a U.S. trust bank, regulated by the Federal Reserve, to function as a clearinghouse for credit derivatives trades in the U.S., according to the exchange’s chief executive. Duncan Niederauer said Thursday that not owning a U.S [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 16:34:16

What A Good Forex Broker Will Offer

With all the bad news coming out of Wall Street, investors have reason to be concerned ... trading, there are certain things you want to demand in a fx trading platform provider. To locate the best ... for a reputable forex broker can pay off. The trick is finding the right currency trading broker for the needs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 15:38:05

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

WH SelfInvest — ECN Forex Broker from Luxembourg

WH SelfInvest is an old financial broker which based in Luxembourg and which can boast quite a long on-line presence in the financial trading ... provides its own custom standalone program for trading and also offers a web-based platform ... . This broker offers Forex, CFD, futures, options and stocks trading services. The accounts start with €2,500 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 14:39:21

5 Key Factors To Note When Investing In Forex

If you're one of the many Forex investors out there, or have been considering being one, ... trading markets and to be used in the machinery of stabilization for other markets and hedge funds ... one thing you need to know is that Forex, in terms of trading accounts, is one of the most [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 09:04:51

Some Things Just Don’t Mix

There are two competing models in CDS clearing.  The CME model is to clear these products through its existing clearing structure, ... , has also come out against mixing futures and CDS risk on CME’s platform. Co-mingling of futures and CDS ... effectively “co-mingling” futures risks and CDS risks.  The alternative model, embraced by ICE [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 03:53:25

Advertising Exchange: Ad Exchanges Open Up Your Ad Inventory To Real-Time Bidding - Best Ad Exchanges Reviewed

When ad networks alone are not enough to sell all of your ad inventory, ad exchanges step in to help you maximize the money you make. Put simply, ad exchanges work on the same idea as stock markets. They allow buyers to bid on your inventory, and the demand for your inventory determines the price at which you can sell it. [ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 13:02:00

DrumBeat: December 1, 2008

A Shore Thing? Why Offshore Wind Power Will Likely Struggle Offshore wind power is the Holy Grail of renewable energy: It’s clean, abundant, and out of sight. Now that energy security is meshing with environmental concerns inside the White House, is offshore wind power ready to come of age? [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 13:48:47

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

Linkstocking: New Circuit-Breaker Levels; CDS Clearing; Trading Floor, Past or Future; Best Blogs of 2008; Seeking Alpha

The wind it was howlin' and the snow was outrageous. We chopped through the night and we chopped through the dawn ... Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission have collectively approved only ... ) received the go-ahead last week for a U.S. operation, following the launch of its European platform [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 22:16:49

Windsor Brokers — Cypriot MetaTrader Forex Broker

Windsor Brokers is a Forex broker company based in Cyprus and regulated by both Cyprus Securities and Exchanges Commission and the British Financial ... (standard and mini). Windsor Brokers also provide futures, oil, CFD and index trading services. Unfortunately there are no convenient payment options to fund the account with this broker and the Forex [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 14:10:34

A Look Back to 2008 and Forward to 2009

I’d like to wish everyone a happy New Year. It’s incredulous that we are now in 2009 ... (IB) and Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA). The number of brokerage relationships also doubled ... . This is a year that I hope you come closer to more of your trading goals. I would like to thank [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 18:39:00

Mumbai bourse launches currency futures trading

The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Wednesday launched a currency derivatives segment (BSE-CDX) on the dollar-rupee platform ... on over-the-counter (OTC) products such as forwards, swaps and options to hedge their currency risks ... Stock Exchange (NSE) had started with exchange-traded currency futures for the first time in the country [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 12:54:29

John McCain Has Some Nerve

Sen. John McCain will be appearing tomorrow morning with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at an "environmental roundtable" in Santa Barbara. Yes, that would be the same Santa Barbara where a 1969 ecological disaster shocked the nation, leading to the birth of the environmental movement. That's right. Sen [more...]

Date: 2008-06-24 02:44:35

ForexGen | US Dollar Under Pressure

US Dollar Under Pressure As Risk Sentiment Pushes Higher (Euro Open) ... stock markets pushed higher despite a swath of dismal Japanese economic data. Equity index futures ... Higher in Thin Holiday Trading Critical Levels The Euro climbed steadily higher overnight, topping [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 12:44:24

Master Futures Trading poster

Done up this poster for Robin's Futures trading course - Master Futures Trading with Robin Ho, ... what he will see (charts, markets, forex etc) when he trades Futures. All these are co-related and affect ... in his smiling eyes too. This reflects how he sees and trades the markets with confidence. Spent a few hours [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 02:52:57

Price Gouging and Keynesians in Drag

As expected, gas prices are rising in some places and equally as expected there are government warnings of price gouging, denial of shortages, etc. Please consider Far from Ike's path, an aftershock is felt: $5 gas.From Florida to Tennessee, and all the way up to Connecticut, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 01:02:00

Testing Interview Questions

Interview Question Part 1 1.What is the testing process? 2.Verifying that an input data produce the expected output. 3.What is the difference between testing and debugging? 4.What is the difference between structural and functional testing? 5.What is a bug? What types of bugs do you know? 6.Bug is a error during execution of the program [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 07:51:27

MONDAY JANUARY 05, 2009

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

Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings

Stock-Net presents custom stock ratings, powered by Caprock Analytics ... on energy trading activities focused on buying and selling futures contracts and other derivative instruments based on the commodities it produces. The Company has four principal subsidiaries [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 13:03:08

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