Although the book is introductory in nature, several areas are helpful for experienced traders as well. These include methods and techniques of spread trading, uses of zero-yield curves, and...

No other trading legend inspires awe and wonder as the Turtles. Two industry giants, Richard Dennis and William Eckhardt, bet on whether successful trading was a matter of nature or nurture. They...

As we head into October, hurricane season has been a nonevent from a supply standpoint and natural gas inventories are 10% higher than the five-year average. As a result, prices have collapsed since...

With the uncertainty in the stock market and with mortgage based securities in shambles, 10-year Treasury notes have been a logical destination for those on a flight to safety, and since June, the...

Wheat supplies are tight and getting tighter, driving prices to all-time highs, and yet non-U.S. buying continues. “Countries that passed at $6 and $7 dollars are now buying at $8. It has gone...

According to MGS, the Founders Program will combine a traditional seeding platform with a multi-strategy investment platform to offer portfolio managers capital and infrastructure support so they can...

Equity index programs that seemed on the wane in recent years made a comeback as the long bull moves helped earn profits and the short-term nature of most of these programs prevented large give-backs...

Although every year we profile emerging CTAs, we preface the story with the qualification that the feature is “not an endorsement but a review of new talent,” we certainly like it when our Hot new...

It is a rare historical event when a credit-crunch induced financial market setback seeps its way into the conservative backwater of cash management. Yet that is exactly what has occurred during the...

Most stock investors firmly believe that options are high-risk investments, only suitable for unrefined traders. But holding expensive stocks through turbulent markets can prove to be an even less...

Also, CME Group now offers electronic trading for weekly FX options on futures, including the euro, Japanese yen, British pound, Swiss franc, Canadian dollar and Australian dollar, all trading...

Thomas J. Hammond was appointed president and chief operating officer of ICE Clear U.S. Inc. Previously he was director at the Chicago Board of Trade and executive vice president and chief operating...

One of the most popular panel discussions at this year’s Burgenstock Meeting in Montreux, Switzerland, focused on how to service the Middle Eastern customer – something a slew of new wannabe exchange...

The remaining 668 CBOT members holding ERPs retain the right to a guaranteed $250,000 minimum payment from the CME Group should they lose a court battle to convert those ERPs into equity shares on...

CME Group, which is a regulated marketplace for foreign exchange trading, announced plans to offer electronic trading for weekly forex options on futures with American-style expiration. As of Sept....

When Ira Kawaller worked for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange as director of the New York office, he was precluded from trading, but as he marketed the relatively new options on futures products, an...