Colin Alexander assumes the reader is new to futures trading, so he covers the basics at the onset. This is where I got my first inkling that this book was more than just another “milk-for-profit”...

Robert Webb’s premise is that by analyzing past events and learning how markets reacted to them, investors and traders can reap rewards when future major events occur. Webb provides a detailed look...

Just about the time short sellers were bailing out of the rice market, a cyclone devastated Myanmar creating a huge humanitarian crisis, having struck the heart of that county’s rice producing...

“It doesn’t make much fundamental sense,” says Andrew W. Waldock of Commodity and Derivative Advisors LLC. “The strategic reserves are almost full,” and we are nearing contango. “We should be seeing...

The Japanese yen is wilting again, primarily due to U.S. dollar strength, says Jason Yu, chief currency strategist for ODL Securities. He says former Fed chief Alan Greenspan’s recent comments that...

On April 24 the U.S. district court in Chicago entered a default judgment against Philip J. Baker and the companies he controlled, including Lake Shore Group of Companies Inc., 12 Lake Shore...

Volatility is the buzzword for sellers of options on any market. Price volatility can create opportunities on both sides of the market and the investor who knows the underlying fundamentals will have...

It is an argument that has been going on as long as there have been trend followers and as long as there have been drawdowns. Does trend following really work? Have markets changed, making trend...

The New York Mercantile Exchange introduced a certified emission reduction options contract. The contract will be priced in euros with a minimum price fluctuation of euro 0.01 per metric ton....

Mark Hemsley was named chief executive and Paul O’Donnell was named chief operating officer of BATS Trading Europe. Hemsley was previously CIO at Liffe, and O’Donnell was an executive director at...

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Congress announced an agreement on a final Farm Bill on May 8 that includes an act to reauthorize the CFTC, and one measure in the bill is turning up the heat on energy market regulation and the...

Gordon Linn started working in the cash grain business in Des Moines, Iowa and figured he would return there. But after coming to Chicago in the early 1970s to hedge for Lincoln Commodities, he found...

With the amount of manipulation and inefficiencies in the market, long-term currency forecasting is difficult. Instead of trying to determine where the euro will be a year from now, retail traders...

Agustin Silvani, head of trading at MIGFX, was drawn to forex trading because of the unlimited opportunities he saw. Prior to joining MIG in 2001, he worked for consulting firm Cambridge Associates,...