Using a question and answer format, this book offers insight into the lives of a dozen traders, including background, trials and tribulations, trading methods and tools used, best and worst trades,...

If you are headed to the beach for a break this winter, or just want a quick read on the train, this is the book to take. Joe Kolman’s Naked Option is a fun read, steeped in Wall Street speak and...

In the first week of December, the E-mini S&P had retraced 50% of its fall losses, almost 100 S&P points, putting traders in a holiday mood. “Growth is the key word,” says Hector Galvan, senior...

Warmer weather, near-record storage levels and a lack of trading volume have dragged the natural gas market down, observes Dean Hazelcorn, trader for Coquest Inc. “After the Amaranth thing, you see a...

While the euro lost ground against the dollar in early December, few analysts think it is the start of a greater trend. The news from the Gulf Cooperation Council in early December could have been...

Never has a financial disaster unfolded in such an excruciatingly slow-motion fashion as the subprime debacle and resulting credit liquidity crisis. It was mid-July when several hedge funds either...

The high cost of buying an outright call or put option on many markets makes ownership quite expensive and in most cases a bad bet unless held for a short period of time. The vertical spread is my...

Eurex launched Eurex SecLend, an electronic marketplace for secured securities lending and borrowing, based on the Eurex Repo markets. The product is designed to help banks and financial service...

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) elected 10 individuals to its board of directors: Robert Birnbaum, Janet Froetscher, R. Eden Martin, Roderick Palmore, David Fisher, Anthony McCormick, Kevin...

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The first time Gregory T. Weldon saw the Comex trading floor in 1983, he found himself in awe of the excitement and the physicality of the pit and of how much it reminded him of playing basketball...