atc’s…again.

I started making and trading artist trading cards (atc’s) a couple of year’s ago; I have a pretty nice collection of them. Atc’s are 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 cards with original art on them, made for trading. I really like the idea ... I was doing most of my trading on closed down. So, I haven’t traded except to my 7yo nephew for a good [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 01:36:48

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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

Financial Crisis Has Biological Roots, Too

Wisci_nyse_660x Successful stock traders may be physically prone to hormonal excess — a physiology that leads to success on fast-paced trading ... world may be throwing a human-sized wrench in its own gears. "Trading is a physical activity ... author of the study and former Wall Street trading-desk operator. "We're looking at how the market [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 22:34:58

"Should We Fear a Trade Backlash?"

More and more I have been asked why we should allow immigration when there is so much domestic unemployment ... to do this, but when all countries follow suit and retaliate with their own set of trade restrictions, it makes everyone worse off. Will governments repeat the "Smoot-Hawley-like backlash against trade [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 18:44:00

Oil Nears $100 — On the Way Down.

For a time, it looked as if the next round number of significance for oil was $200 a barrel, but unless something quite spectacular occurs, ... Consumers started to change their habits a bit,” says Scott Magnuson, commodity trading advisor at MF Global. David Aleman, senior trade analyst with Grand Central Trading Co. in Newport Beach, Calif., [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 16:13:40

Trade Watch: Further Confirmation of Slowdown in Container Shipments

We've taken an interest in shipping as an indicator of international trade ... have confirmed a falloff in trade, such as plunging commodity prices, factory closures and even declining ... up this week, but many brokers urged considerable caution in seeing this as a harbinger of change [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 08:16:40

Trade Holder - Tradeholder.com

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Date: 2009-01-12 06:14:30

Clearinghouses Volumes To Fall, S&P Says. What Does This Mean For BM&FBovespa?

Standard and Poor's said in a report released Jan. 9 that the global exchange and clearinghouse industry will experience a downturn in volumes and ... billion reais in November (a total of 5.54 million trades,) compared with 122.54 billion reais traded ... by about half from the 13.77 million traded in October. Currency futures traded 4.95 million [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 12:26:19

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

Trading Places

The Washington Post editors make a fine suggestion: President-elect Barack Obama needs to reassure Americans and U.S. trading partners around the world that free trade will be part of his plan for U.S. economic recovery. If his campaign for the White House had a weakness, it was the mixed signals he sent [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 17:47:57

Can Earnings Announcements Provide Reliable Trading Opportunities?

Earnings announcement is an event that is constantly happening four times a year known as earnings seasons ... are the judgment day for the last quarter’s performance. As investors have expectations, earnings create a spike in trading volume and thus create volatility. So what’s the big deal? Are these trading [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 04:44:44

Trade, Letter of Credit Woes Finally Go Mainstream

We have been writing for a few weeks that the credit crisis had engulfed letters of credit, a crucial instrument in international trade, particularly of commodities (ex oil) and other raw materials. With banks hesitating to extend ... of regulators and international trade organizations . From the Times Online: The credit drought [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 02:24:33

Market Mum’s New E-Book is Here!

Introducing Market Mum’s New Ebook! “Mastering a Winning Traders Mindset” Hi everyone, Well as the name suggests, ... wavering.    Learn to maintain discipline.    Reduce the stress associated with trading gains ... .    Learn to follow your trading plan and level your emotions    Become responsible for your trading [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 02:12:18

Outfield: Mets could be Interested in Nady

Last wek, Ken Davidoff said in Newsday that the Yankees prefer to trade OF Xavier Nady, instead of 1B-OF Nick Swisher ... and are not looking to acquire a bat either through free agency or through a trade.” …actually, i wouldn’t be surprised if the Mets look to trade for a bat, but, if they do, it will not be until after [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 14:07:57

Learn to Trade Options

The husband has been buying stocks since he was still single.  So, it’s more than a decade ... ,I still don’t know how to buy stocks and trade options. Even looking for a promising stocks ... the US economic crisis, stocks and trading are just really low that we needed to let go on some of them [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 20:36:43

TRADE: Dave van den Bergh traded for Dominic Oduro

3rddegree.net is reporting that Red Bull New York has agreed to trade recently re-signed Dutch midfielder Dave van den Bergh to FC Dallas for ... , as it turns out it was with the intentions of trading him to the Western Division side. More details [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 00:47:07

Making Money Through Day Trading: The Secret Lives of Stay-At-Home Mommy Speculators

What else is big in Japan? The secret life of Japanese suburban female market speculators. [ ... . And by writing books and holding seminars on trading strategies, she has also become a celebrity ... day trader japenese, online trading, speculation, market timing This woman is not your typical [more...]

Date: 2008-06-06 23:06:05

Awesome Forex Robot - 100% No Cost

Hello and Happy New Year, To start 2009 off we wanted to give our readers this complimentary Forex Robot ... to you in 2009, making sure a great year is ahead of you!! This Forex Robot:- Nails trade after trade ... ... no human intervention at all- Trades VERY frequently- Just released! (and only being provided [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 03:56:00

Commodity futures trading - Income means cash dividends.

Capital appreciation means an increase in the market price of a stock. Safety means maximum insurance against loss of the funds invested ... held. For expert in-depth information on all aspects of Make Money Trading Commodity, visit Commodity Trading Software [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 02:00:07

Groundwork for Trade Conflict Being Laid?

We have worried out loud that the policy remedies being pursued by the US amount to trying to restore the status quo ante to as great a degree as ... that they needed to let their currency rise (and presumably over time move to a more balanced, less export ... are seeking to restore or increase trade surpluses. That in turn means SOMEONE has to import [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 05:55:14

Trade show exhibits

Exhibition is the best way to promote our products ... they truly specialize in trade show exhibits. I saw what they have made in their portfolios folder ... Displays give them attention to detail and focus for customers trade show exhibit. If you need [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 02:03:03

Poundland is Quids In

Online Stock Trading - There's Life in Poundland Gordon, But Not as We Know ItCheap is the new chic. Online stock trading may be down but trading at Poundland is booming. Poundland (in case you have led a sheltered life) is a shop where every item costs a pound. An 'item' may be a hammer or a box [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 14:02:31

Links 1/8/09

Apologies for a post or so less than usual the last couple of days, I came back from holiday to some real messes ( ... of trades that I am now kicking myself up one side and down the other about. I simply despise trading ... in Treasuries, cash, short, or played currencies well, you got hammered. The big problem with 401 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 07:05:35

6 Presidential Siblings and the Headaches They Caused

Every aspect of the American presidency comes under intense scrutiny, but few parts of a president’s life contain as many amusing, ... . He drew accusations of insider trading chicanery in 1999 when he made nearly $800,000 in three trades ... strategies, a deal that led to claims of influence peddling. These little business episodes [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 21:10:12

Wren Considering Trade For Pitcher

Braves GM Frank Wren was on 790 The Zone yesterday ... in play prior to John Smoltz leaving: There's other guys out there that we like. I have trade ... we can do...The trade proposal that I have on my desk - that was put in place six weeks ago. So far [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 18:11:29

More Grim News on the Trade Front

Reader Michael appeared to be on a mission on Saturday and sent quite a few links on trade/shipping related matters ... from currency, bunker and terminal handling surcharges. As rates slide, so they are also starting ... trading conditions are demands on lines from shippers for extended credit as the banking meltdown hits [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 08:09:41

QUANTITATIVE ALGORITHMIC DEVELOPER: SOUTH KOREA : HONG KONG : ASIA

Top tier Hedge fund based in SEOUL is looking for a SENIOR/TEAMLEAD level candidate with experience leading a small group of developers to join their ALGORITHMIC TRADING team to develop their HIGH FREQUENCY TRADING STRATEGIES and TRADING PLATFORMS. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 19:20:08

Window of Opportunity in the GBP/USD…

Here’s your free trading video for: January 19, 2009 < Want To Receive More Free Forex Trading Videos? Join our “Forex Impact Video Newsletter” and receive currency trading tips just like this every day to your inbox. Just fill out the form below to subscribe: First Name [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 23:21:08

Stocks trade lower amid conflicting signals

Stocks trade lower amid conflicting signals by The Star-Ledger Business Desk Monday November 17, 2008, 9:45 AM Stocks were down moderately in early trading as investors digest more job cuts on Wall Street and a better-than-expected report on industrial output. The Dow Jones industrial average was down [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 12:29:54

Four at Four: Heard It Through the Grape Vine

There are no easy answers, solutions, or even courses of action for the Federal Reserve amid the current credit crunch, which, ... of capital is an instinct that trading firms possess, it’s hard to see how they wouldn’t act ... the stock was trading at about 200 times the company’s expected per-share earnings, it won’t be surprising [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 11:33:00

Forex Trading Signals Profit on Japanese Yen Strength - What’s Next? (Daily FX via Yahoo! Finance)

Currency trading markets have started the New Year with a bang, ... . The sudden jump in volatility has largely benefited our Breakout and Momentum-based trading signals, as our strategies have largely bought into US Dollar strength. Link to the original site [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 23:23:56

Technical Problems Halt Electronic Trading at CME

Howard Packowitz reports: Trading on CME Group Inc ... technical problem. The announcement was made to traders on the CME Group’s trading floor and later ... rate products, including Treasury and Eurodollar futures. However, a notice e-mailed to customers [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 15:23:40

Four at Four: Fickle and Confused

It’s all about perception, which is why a 360-point tumble in the Dow doesn’t appear so bad when compared with the prism of an 800-point drop earlier in the trading day. The last hours of trading lifted markets from their nadir ... be its own animal here, but it has something in common with the others: a reliance on commodity-related [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 11:40:00

How I Banked 55% on $STKL in 2 Days!

This trade today on STKL really couldn’t have gone any better. I banked 55% on this in just 2 trading sessions as i alerted Black Service members to go long ... of trading and the stock closed at 2.45 at its high of day. Forward earnings are strong [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 22:38:38

Chinese Stock Markets Tank, Other Foreign Indices Fall

The world is finally waking up to the fact that inflation is getting to be a wee bit of a problem and inflation is very unkind to investments ... day of trading since the People's Bank of China announced it would lift the ratio of reserves banks ... trading at Daiwa Securities SMBC in Hong Kong. "We have more work to do on the downside." Investors [more...]

Date: 2008-06-10 10:07:23

SEO Sales Spammers Make the Rest of Us Look Bad But We Should Keep Marketing Anyway

by Stoney deGeyter Unlike many in our industry I'm not against what some consider annoying forms of advertising and marketing ... " of trading links. (Perhaps they missed the memo explaining that non-targeted links have no value ... up in your email is sort of like trading in a Ford Pinto and expecting to receive a Lexus in return [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 21:01:17

Bad news still causing unrest ?

Kevin Lane is one of the founding partners of Fusion Analytics, and is the firm’s director of Quantitative Research ... for developing their proprietary stock selection models and trading algorithms. Mr. Lane produced a broad range ... trading days or is the negative news still a shock to traders? For the record our bet would [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 16:30:53

Evergreen Solar Extends Slide On Lehman-Related Fallout

a second-straight day on concerns about complications related to a stock-lending agreement with Lehman Brothers in connection with a May 2008 ... by Lehman and indexed to something called the ” Lehman Brothers Commodity Alpha Trading Strategies I Excess ... %, to $10.09. Best Buy (BBY) shares are trading lower this morning after the company posted [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 13:46:57

Four at Four: Unstable Foundations

It’s almost as if the oil contract itself saw the equity rallies of Thursday and Friday as a personal affront, ... , senior vice president at Alaron Trading. “The big question is, ‘Is it just one commodity fund ... massive spikes — oil hit $130 a barrel in trading today [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 11:36:00

There won't be much of a trade market for Michael Young

Mike Hindman has covered this. Here's ESPN's Buster Olney on the subject, paraphrasing what he's heard from GMs around the league ... of money involved." You think Tom Hicks will repeat what he did with A-Rod and pay a big chunk of Young's contract after trading him? That might be what it takes to fulfill Young's request of finding [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 18:06:10

The reasons Ferrit failed

Ferrit’s failure has been tipped enough times in these pages - so to make it easy here are the main posts over the past 2 years ... websites. All this was done in the context of Trade Me’s vast presence in the online retail space in New Zealand. I’m still not sure that Ferrit understood that Trade Me was a competitor, with new [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 18:11:18

Remember $50 a Barrel Oil? It Has Returned.

Remember $50 a Barrel Oil? It Has Returned. Posted by David Gaffen ... , falling to one-third of that price in recent trading. Scott Magnuson, commodity trading advisor at MF Global, says oil could eventually settle into a trading range in the $45 to $50 area, but to date [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 15:03:47

Some Trading Ideas

Time and time again either we or others have referred to this market as a trader's market ... willing to pay tax on short term gains there is money to be made.  As part of Birinyi's monthly Reminiscences newsletter subscribers are treated to five new trading stocks with each publication [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 15:28:02

More to the Mark Cuban Insider Trading Indictment Than Meets the Eye?

Full disclosure: I normally do not take notice of insider trading suits, even when big names are involved ... . She could easily have said, "My broker called me about this, I was in a cab, between meetings, making ... a Dairy Queen,” Mr. Cuban paid a $500,000 fine — and spent a day at a Dairy Queen serving Blizzards [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 07:07:09

SF Fed President Yellen Talks Dovish

A: I'm taking some time off from real estate this month and watching all that is happening in the stock market & credit world. A little disclosure, I did re-activate my trading account to get a more real time look at what is going on daily in the equity markets; screenshot at bottom of this post of my trading software [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 18:56:54

"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

Time to Insist on Some Conceptual Clarity and Historical Truth

Lets be clear about something.  We did not just live through a 30 year period of laissez faire that has come to an end ... .  We didn't have an era of complete deregulation and free trade, we had partial deregulations (and attenuated property rights) and managed trade agreements.  We have international agencies that promote [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 14:16:15

Closing Down Early in 2008

December is usually a slow month in the markets, and volume tends to dry up around the middle of the month as investors, ... as one of the worst years in history for the major equity averages. Trading volume in futures, stocks and options has declined as investors have reduced risk after a trying year that left much [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 18:27:07

When trading stops - Major stock exchange outages this decade

The recent world-wide financial chaos has reminded us how sensitive the stock market is, with sharp up- and downturns ... for more than three hours due to an outage caused by a software glitch. May 25, 2005: Moscow Interbank Currency ... -time stock prices to banks and brokerages. July 18, 2000: Frankfurt Stock Exchange Trading was stopped [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 15:13:35

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