Floyd Upperman utilizes such popular indicators such as W bottoms, reversals and swing trades, usually with his own unique spin, but primarily in tandem with his main area of expertise: the...

Catalano puts forth the premise that three developments: the PC, the Internet and ETFs have made investing easier for professional and serious non-professionals, this book’s intended audience....

Encroaching corn acreage and the developing viability of soybean oil based biodiesel has helped push May beans above $8 per bushel, and traders are eager to see the March 30 planting intentions...

After peaking at $1.33 per lb. in mid December, coffee turned lower and the sell-off appears to be accelerating. “We have had a great deal of producer selling,” says James Cordier, head trader at...

Sometimes people need a reminder that markets go down as well as up. And traders won’t soon forget the day the Shanghai Stock Index tripped and fell, giving up 9% of its value, and triggered a...

When the abrupt correction in U.S. equity markets struck on Tuesday Feb. 27 following the huge sell-off in Asia leading to a one-day 416-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, analysts...

Penny-priced options, introduced October 2006, are gaining acceptance. Currently all exchanges support penny priced increments on 10 stocks and three ETFs. However, some firms, such as Interactive...

Not since the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) innocently asked in its prelude to studying the Commitment of Traders report last year, whether the report itself was still necessary, has a...

The government lets people drive cars, buy overpriced tech stocks that fall to zero, engage in extreme sports, smoke tobacco, etc. BUT for some reason won’t allow U.S. citizens of normal financial...

It is paternalistic and immoral for government to prohibit freely entered into transactions. As such I support allowing any American to invest in any fund they choose. Net worth is not a determinant...

Modern Portfolio Theory posits that hedge funds and private equity investments can provide substantial benefits to a diversified portfolio. Specifically, an allocation of capital to each of these...

As an educated hedge fund investor, I am deeply alarmed, concerned and angry that your organization considers me too ignorant, uneducated, and thus, ineligible for participation in a pooled...

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has launched the CME-Carvill Hurricane Index (CHI). The underlying indexes will be calculated by Carvill, an independent reinsurance intermediary, using publicly...

Carol Burke has been promoted to chief executive officer at Spectrum Global Fund Administration LLC. The former CBOT executive was previously chief administrative officer and general counsel at...

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The patent infringement cases that Trading Technologies Inc. (TT) has brought against a slew of software vendors, brokers and customers has passed another mile marker on the way to the June trial...

Rumors have surfaced that the SEC is looking into whether the New York Stock Exchange’s (NYSE) shift toward electronic trading affected its ability to handle a surge in trading volume, such as one...

Six customers of Man Financial Inc. will receive $196,900 in restitution ordered by the CFTC, which also ordered the giant futures commission merchant (FCM) to strengthen its supervisory system for...

The New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) is jumping into the global consolidation craze by purchasing a 10% stake in the Montreal Exchange (MX). Through a joint venture agreement, the exchanges also...

Richard Scully first became interested in commodities trading growing up on his family’s corn and soybean farm in Central Illinois. That experience is what led him to take a position at Paine...