“The Heretics of Finance” is a compilation of interviews with technical trading experts done in a question-and-answer format reminiscent of Jack Schwager’s “Market Wizards.” Each individual is...

There’s been plenty of debate over whether you can legitimately and consistently profit as a day-trader. Many argue day-trading is gambling and nothing more, often citing the many day-traders who...

Richard Roscelli, broker at Alaron Las Vegas, says the downward movement is “based on people giving up the ghost in regards to the financial institutions. There’s been spot picking in certain...

No commodity has fallen quite as precipitously as natural gas — with the possible exception of crude oil — since the bull commodity market imploded in July 2007. And crude oil has at least come off...

Soybeans have been making a pretty consistent retreat ever since the commodity bull market came to a crashing halt last summer. A worldwide recession will do that, and Allendale Vice President Joe...

The overall message from the Managed Funds Association (MFA) to its members at its February Network 2009 Conference in Key Biscayne, Fla.  was “Get over it, it’s coming.” The “it” is regulation, and...

Due to the explosion of volatility, normal position trading strategies using any type of standard risk management have been hard pressed to show positive results and this has been especially evident...

CME Group signed an agreement with the JSE Ltd to license CME Group's benchmark corn futures settlement prices to create a new JSE cash-settled corn futures contract. CME group also announced the...

Xavier Rolet was named chief executive of the London Stock Exchange. Previously he was a senior executive at Lehman Brothers in Europe. “London Stock Exchange Group[’s] strategic position is unique,...

Two decades ago, the world was quite different. The U.S. dollar was the uncontested standard of value. The euro did not exist. If small traders wanted exposure to currencies, they traded currency...

For Francisco Vaca, chairman and chief executive officer of Vaca Capital Management LLC (VCM), that opportunity took the form of a cancelled project — the construction of Fermilab’s superconductor....

Having your total risk set when entering a position is more important than ever, given the volatility of the last year, which is leading people to options. “More and more people are trading options,”...

As opposed to liquid futures markets, there are thousands of individual equity options contracts to trade, be they individual equities, indexes or exchanged trade funds (ETFs). Because of this, it is...

Marek Chelkowski grew up in Poland and went to University there but even though he came of age in a communist system, he always knew that he wanted to trade and speculate on markets. “Somehow I knew...

The first quarter of 2009 is coming to an end and as of March 20, 2009, when one looks at three major currencies vis a vis the U.S. dollar, it is clear that the greenback is looking better than at...