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Book Reviews
The book is geared towards beginning forex traders, offering basic definitions and outlining common traps for novice traders. She advises avoiding companies that promise little or no risk and firms...
Among the conclusions: we humans impose order on random events; we get more fixated on the size of a reward, such as a lottery, than on the improbable odds of hitting it. The anticipation of a score...
Market Analysis
Copper is a barometer of the world economy, and tellingly it has fallen to $3.41 per lb. in mid-August from $4.05 in July. “As we see copper prices fall, we consider that there will a global slowdown...
The E-mini Nasdaq 100 has outperformed other equity indexes during this summer’s volatile trade. A primary reason for its resiliency is that smaller companies, of which it has many, are simply more...
Having just crushed the juice and shut down in July, orange juice tanks are full and frozen concentrate orange juice futures have declined to $0.98 per lb. in August from $1.38 in January. “It’s as...
Managed Money
We have noted the growing demand for short-term managed futures programs in this issue’s Managed Money feature and Trader Profile and now both short-term programs and allocators looking for the best...
Midsummer 2008 witnessed a precipitous decline in the price of natural gas that had many wondering if prices ever moved anywhere other than down. But the pace and scope of the sell-off has had the...
When we last looked at currency-specific commodity trading advisors, we saw an explosion of new programs that were targeting short-term strategies. Numerous advisors noted that there had been a...
Options Strategy
With growing demand and carryout supplies getting smaller, there is little room for a disappointing corn crop this year. Since corn became both a food and energy product about five years ago, its...
New For Traders
CME Group will launch CME Cleared Swaps on Sept. 2. CME Group also will offer 3-month Overnight Index Swaps futures and options on futures. The futures contract will be available for a trade date...
The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) launched the EuroCurrency Volatility and Gold Volatility indexes in late July and announced plans to expand the volatility franchise to other commodity based...
People
Robert H. McCooey Jr., senior vice president at Nasdaq OMX Group, will expand his role to include new listings and IPOs in the Americas and the Asia-Pacific region. Also at Nasdaq OMX, senior vice...
News
By the time you read this New York Mercantile Exchange and CME Group members will have voted on their merger agreement and chances of approval are greater due to revisions to the agreement announced...
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Profiles in Forex
Jack Ross Crooks Jr. describes himself as corporate finance guy. He got his early experience trading stocks and gravitated to futures, trading currency futures in the pit at the Chicago Mercantile...
It’s time to sell EUR/USD and stay with the trade. Could it be that crude is suffering from a reality bite? The reality is that the big four in the developed world, the United States, United Kingdom,...