Futures Magazine November 01, 2005
Trading Techniques
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Getting a handle with adaptive limits
Overbought and oversold indicators are designed to help determine the excessive boundaries of a cycle in a ranging market. To profit from cycle analysis, the benchmarks of overbought/oversold
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Volatility cues can lead equity prices
There are many daily trend analysis tools, such as the relative strength index (RSI) and moving average convergence-divergence (MACD), that can effectively predict a coming change in price direction
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Will the real price please stand up?
Studies that examine the returns of futures-based investments often ignore unique aspects of these markets. Speculative futures positions exist amid many contracts with different expirations and
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Simple system, big profits
That the trend is your friend is the first rule of trading. One of the easiest and most visual methods of trend following is to locate the moving average of the price data and trade with it. Experts
Futures 101
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Old school, hard nose, softs market
For many newer traders, futures have become synonymous with interest rates, currencies and equity indexes. But it’s the agricultural commodities that have been traded in New York and Chicago for more
Industry Trends
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Not your granddad’s grain silo
Clive Furness has seen the future of open outcry, and it looks a lot like the present of electronic trading. A former director of business development at the London Commodity Exchange and then the
Markets
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Large yields calling the shots
In a year that has forced the U.S. Senate to introduce a bill to offer federal payments to U.S. farmers hit by the drought, high gasoline prices and hurricane damage, you wouldn’t think we would be
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Tech talk
Soybean oil is rarely seen as a harbinger for the entire grain complex but on some occasions it has been known to lead. What happens in soybean oil can have major implications for much of the grain
Managed Money
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How were so many fooled?
By late 2002, early 2003 the long-term bull equity market was more than dead and high net worth investors, if they did not have the foresight to be diversified from a long-only equity concentrated
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A fraud within a fraud
The Bayou Management LLC fraud, which began as early as 1998, started to unravel in the latter part of August after Bayou failed to produce checks to its investors after it announced the funds would
Trader Profiles
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Dekker scores with systematizing
Dekker created his Global Diversified Futures program by applying eight years of successful discretionary trading experience and systematizing it. The Incline Village, Nev.,-based program is up
