Yesenia Salcedo

• Fighting the urge to merge

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  June 15, 2007

  One financial investor in the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) is saying publicly in a letter to CBOT Chairman Charlie Carey and president and CEO Bernie Dan that the terms of the Chicago Mercantile

• Lixia Li: Trading the S&P intuitively

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  May 17, 2007

  During that time she became a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and took an interest in the futures markets in general and the S&P 500 in particular. She found the S&P trended well and was easy for

• System trading: tale of two traders

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  May 17, 2007

  During our series on automated trading systems, we’ve compared and contrasted buying an off the shelf system with building and testing your own trading system. In this final part of the series, we’ll

• USFE launches contracts on CBOT merger

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  April 18, 2007

  The United States Futures Exchange (USFE) has launched binary event futures (BEF) that allow traders to take a “yes” or “no” position on whether or not an event will take place on or by a specified

• Testing your trading system

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  April 18, 2007

  Once you have built your trading system, you must test it before putting money at risk. CTA Joe Krutsinger, who has developed more than 700 trading systems, put it this way, “Before you can go

• Forex crackdown

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  April 17, 2007

  On Feb. 27, 2007, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a consent order of permanent injunction against Commodity Investment Group, Inc. (CIG) of Ft.

• SEC unravels insider ring

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  March 29, 2007

  On March 1, the SEC charged 14 defendants in an insider trading scheme that netted more than $15 million in illegal profits on thousands of trades, using information stolen from UBS Securities LLC

• Push OTC energy bill

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  March 29, 2007

  Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is making another run at increasing the regulation of energy derivatives trading. On Feb. 13, Feinstein re-introduced legislation aimed at preventing manipulation

• Volume troubles at NYSE

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  March 26, 2007

  Rumors have surfaced that the SEC is looking into whether the New York Stock Exchange’s (NYSE) shift toward electronic trading affected its ability to handle a surge in trading volume, such as one

• Building your own trading system

  By Yesenia Salcedo  |  March 26, 2007

  Our first article in this trading system series discussed the pros and cons of building your own trading system versus buying one off the shelf. If you are inclined to build, here are the necessary