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Market Analysis
Dow Jones futures have been extremely volatile, the chart shows about one dozen 100-point moves within a half-hour in the second week of August. “The put-call ratio is about the highest it’s been...
Despite an $8 per barrel drop in early August, the crude oil market is still in an uptrend, says Thomas N. Hartmann, analyst for Altavest Worldwide Trading. “We’ve got relatively stable demand and...
With the U.S. dollar hitting a 10-year low and with a rocky equities market, you might expect gold to explode to the upside. Instead, gold has started tracking stocks and has put in a near-term low,...
Managed Money
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in July voted unanimously to adopt a new anti-fraud rule under the Investment Advisers Act it claims will clarify its ability to bring enforcement actions...
While the huge implosion of hedge fund Amaranth Advisors was a dramatic event — particularly for shareholders — and an embarrassment to the large institutions counted among its investors, it did not...
Options Strategy
Intrinsic options have strike prices that are in-the-money. If the December gold futures contract is trading at $690 per ounce, the December gold $670 call option is in-the-money, or intrinsic for...
New For Traders
Fimat has established Professional Trading Group Solutions, offering global clearing, execution and financing services across all asset classes for professional trading groups worldwide and offers...
People
“It is with great pleasure that I have taken on the role of Chairman of the new ICE Clear Europe,” Reid says. “We are proceeding at full throttle to put in place the systems, processes and procedures...
News
The futures industry is living through one of the most challenging and dramatic evolutions in its history. Consolidations, the fading of open-outcry and technology platform integrations are, only the...
One of the best pit traders I ever knew was Jack O’Bannion. But Jack was one of the shortest locals at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), and short usually didn’t cut it in the pits. In the bond...
Mark G. Bagan, president and CEO of the MGEX, attributes the increase in value to the effectiveness and execution of their business plan, but another key factor is the growth in the value of...
The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations concluded in its report on Excessive Speculation in the Natural Gas Markets that excessive speculation contributed to rising energy prices and that...
China looks set to begin trading futures on the Shanghai-Shenzhen 300 index in September now that the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has licensed more than 40 brokerages to trade on...
The National Futures Association (NFA) has suspended Chicago-based Lake Shore Asset Management Ltd.’s NFA membership; and Lake Shore may not solicit participant funds or place trades until it is in...