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Since the stock market devastation of 2000-2002, technical analysis has gained a much broader acceptance among individual and professional investors and traders. Rather than being a staid discipline,...
There are only a handful of books published on when to sell a stock. Pinpointing the time to sell turns out to be very critical to your ability to make money. It is a hard skill to learn and most...
Market Analysis
With crude oil prices in the dumper, ethanol now economically unfeasible and demand for commodities down across the board, corn prices have simply collapsed in early December from a high of $7.75 per...
February crude oil futures have cratered, falling to $42.51 per barrel in early December from $148.17 on July 11. “It feels like this market is putting in a bottom,” says Joseph P. Marshall,...
After a huge run up this decade, the Swiss franc has lost steam against the U.S. dollar. “The Swiss was a funding currency for many years,” says Randolph Donney, analyst for Thomson Reuters. Now it’s...
Managed Money
The most recent three-month Treasury Bill auction netted 0%. Add fixed income, the safest place north of your mattress, to the list of investments that just aren’t giving any returns. As equities...
While painful for long-term investors, the bear markets in both stocks and commodities, which intensified in the fall of 2008, have produced two market conditions that are extremely favorable to...
Some may say you should get your head examined, but you already knew that if you are making your living through trading. After the initial jokes, most experts would tell you that more of your time...
New For Traders
CME Group launched European style options on the European gasoil bullet swaps futures contract, average price options on the European gasoil calendar swaps futures contract and 26 new monthly PJM...
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Bernard W. Dan was promoted to CEO of MF Global. He had been MF Global’s president and chief operating officer and previously served as president and CEO of the Chicago Board of Trade. “There are...
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Profiles in Options
There is a catch 22 with trading options. Beginner and less capitalized traders can benefit from options but understanding options requires a more in-depth knowledge of markets and volatility than...
In the 1970s, when Howard Tyllas worked as a photographer for United Press International, he had a friend who traded at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). Back then the CME was located on...
Profiles in Forex
Despite his 23 years of trading experience, Rich Micallef describes himself as a basketball coach. You have to dig a little deeper to find out that he played guard for Brooklyn College back in the...
When I began as a commercial banking trader years ago, I was a reactionary trader: going with flows, clearing up other people’s positions and from time to time putting on day-trades to make profits....