Interest Rates
February 02, 2012 Dollar index analysis in the context of global sentiment and equity moves....
February 01, 2012 New financial products...
January 29, 2012 A look at the major economic reports and company earnings releases for the upcoming week....
January 29, 2012 Weekly analysis of all futures markets, including stock index futures and interest rates....
January 25, 2012 The FOMC extended its pledge to keep interest rates low through late-2014 in its January meeting...
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Stock Indexes
February 03, 2012 Robert McCurtain reviews the current technical condition of the stock market and updates the CPFL and MAAD indicators....
February 03, 2012 Stock market technical review and look ahead to key patterns for the upcoming trading session....
February 03, 2012 Daily technical and fundamental analysis of the E-mini stock index futures market by Toni Hansen....
February 03, 2012 Shares of Green Mountain were climbing higher Thursday after the company announced Q1 results that topped expectations...
February 02, 2012 Robert McCurtain reviews the current technical condition of the stock market and updates the CPFL and MAAD indicators....
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ETFs
December 01, 2011 New financial products...
December 01, 2011 Hedge Fund performance for September 2011...
October 04, 2011 The ProShares Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures ETF will attempt to provide twice the daily performance of the S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures Index, before fees and expenses. ...
September 22, 2011 The SEC’s Division of Enforcement alleges that Spencer D. Mindlin obtained non-public details about Goldman’s plans to purchase and sell large amounts of SPDR ETFs....
August 29, 2011 The 10 new ETFs are based on five reference indices – two ETFs on each index. ...
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Financial Strategy
November 01, 2010 Identifying a market anomaly that gives you an edge seems exciting, but it is only a baby step in a long process of defining and exploiting that edge. Next you have to build a trading system to use it...
May 13, 2010 A history and guide to equity indexes and how they are composed and traded....
January 19, 2010 E-minis, micro forex and binary contracts are among the small contracts that can boost your trading performance....
September 01, 2009 Sometimes, traders appear to chase every trade or market move, no matter how early or late they are to the party. With the right tools, you can position yourself to take advantage of this tendency....
September 01, 2009 The biggest challenge faced by technical analysts is how best to use domain knowledge to infer an appropriate bias in their algorithms. Here, we dive into the subject of model selection using a system for the pound/dollar....
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Regulation
February 03, 2012 Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 243,000 in January, and the unemployment rate decreased to 8.3 percent...
February 01, 2012 The European Commission voted to block the proposed DB/NYSE merger on Wednesday...
February 01, 2012 Judge Martin Glenn ruled against a motion that would have given former MF Global customers priority rights over Chapter 11 creditors. ...
January 31, 2012 CFTC Commissioner Scott O'Malia says agency was diverted from its core mission by swaps rulemaking. ...
January 31, 2012 The MF Global crisis has, among other things, created a nightmare for CTAs in terms of its performance calculations. NFA answers these FAQs. ...
January 31, 2012 A class action lawsuit was filed against MF Global executives for allegedly comingling customer funds in its last days before bankruptcy...
January 30, 2012 French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he is prepared to unilaterally impose transaction tax. ...
January 28, 2012 Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) calls out CFTC Chairman Gensler for inconsistant policy on MF Global. ...
January 27, 2012 Real gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 2.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011 ...
January 27, 2012 Duncan Niederauer, chief executive of NYSE Euronext, has admitted he “misjudged” European antitrust authorities’ approach to his exchange’s attempted tie-up with Deutsche Börse...
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Financial Products
January 01, 2012 New financial products...
December 01, 2011 New financial products...
June 24, 2011 New financial products...
March 01, 2011 New financial products...
January 01, 2011 New equity products...
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Book Reviews
December 01, 2011 Review of Jeff Augen's "Microsoft Excel for Stock and Option Traders"...
July 01, 2011 Review of "Super Sectors" by John Nyardi...
June 01, 2011 Review of "Death of the American Investor: The Emergence of a New Global eShareholder" by Nico R. Willis...
April 01, 2011 Review of "The Ultimate Guide to Trading ETFs" by Don Dion and Carolyn Dion...
March 01, 2011 Review of the book "Trade Like an O’Neil Disciple: How We Made 18,000% in the Stock Market" by Gil Morales & Dr. Chris Kacher...
October 01, 2010 Review of "Market Upside Down" by Vinh Q. Tran...
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