Yesenia Salcedo

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  Philip McBride Johnson: Made CFTC master of its own domain.

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  September 19, 2012

  Originally published in our 2007 "Agents of Change" special issue, this piece chronicles Philip McBride Johnson's involvement in the regulatory structure of the futures industry and his role in bringing financial instruments to the futures markets.

• Parrot: Soaring like a condor

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  October 18, 2007

  Parrot Trading Partners LLC (PTP) returned more than 30% in its Calendar Condor trading program in the three-month period ending in August, a period that produced large drawdowns for many

• More options in FX

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  September 20, 2007

  CME Group, which is a regulated marketplace for foreign exchange trading, announced plans to offer electronic trading for weekly forex options on futures with American-style expiration. As of Sept.

• CFETS to clear CME?

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  September 20, 2007

  One of the most popular panel discussions at this year’s Burgenstock Meeting in Montreux, Switzerland, focused on how to service the Middle Eastern customer – something a slew of new wannabe exchange

• Tools and software for the advanced trader

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  September 17, 2007

  In the first part of this two-part series we covered the basic offerings by trading softwares and platforms for retail traders. Of course, not everyone is a beginner and there are plenty of services

• Creating your own weather contracts

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  August 21, 2007

  Weather is nothing new, nor is hedging its risk. The over-the-counter (OTC) weather market has been around since 1997, and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s (CME) weather futures and options

• Bottom line: Has dollar bottomed?

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  August 17, 2007

  The U.S. dollar got slammed in the first half of 2007, especially in July when the euro and pound sterling reached multi-year highs against the dollar. Most of the analysts we spoke with agree the

• Paskewitz’s contrarian approach wins in S&P

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  July 18, 2007

  Paskewitz Asset Management (PAM) was created when its founder, Bradford Paskewitz, decided to do something more challenging with his skills in artificial intelligence and statistics, so he designed a

• Choosing a trading software

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  July 17, 2007

  It probably wouldn’t be wise to just pick a trading software or platform out of a hat when you’re starting out. There are too many to choose from, with many differences and similarities and pricing

• Moving averages

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  June 22, 2007

  While some technical indicators are more popular than others, few have proved to be as objective, reliable and useful as the moving average. Technical traders track the trends of financial assets by