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Top 20 investment Myths: Part 2

By Michael | December 25, 2013

Statistics do not reveal risk. As I state in the summary for this myth, “risk can only be determined by an understanding and evaluation of the return drivers underlying any given trading strategy.”

Top 20 investment myths Part 3: The danger of futures

By Michael Dever | December 25, 2013

Fear of futures trading is as irrational as a fear of fire. They both can burn you if abused, but provide enormous benefits when properly used.

Free lunch investing: Top 20 myths part 4

By Michael Dever | December 25, 2013

Diversification is the one true “Free Lunch” of investing. Of course, by definition, a diversified portfolio will underperform the best performing constituents of a portfolio.

CME Group announces trading challenge

By Press Relase | December 23, 2013

This competition is an annual event and the number of schools that participate has grown each year - with 179 schools from 26 countries and over 320 teams competing in 2013.

Data Fees Kick CTAs and IBs When They’re Down

By Daniel P. Collins | December 16, 2013

While no one likes a tax increase, which this basically is, people tend to accept it and move on. However, the data fees announced by CME Group stand to have a much larger impact....

Are trading and gambling the same?

By Michael J. Gutmann | December 16, 2013

Trading and gambling are both fundamentally stochastic, that is unpredictable, and because of this they are often viewed negatively. We feel an “honest effort” has more predictability to it, and we may hold those who take too much risk in disdain.

6 investment errors you are making right now

By Barry Ritholtz, Bloomberg | December 13, 2013

What sorts of errors did a young trader like myself make earlier in his career? All of the usual – i.e., expensive – ones. A short list of my mistakes looks something like this:

"Cancel Crash" is blast from past, “Floored” not so much apparently

By Michael McFarlin | December 12, 2013

Being the good traders they are, Attain Capital Management recently took the time to watch and review the two movies to debut earlier this year on Alpha TV, "Floored" and "Cancel Crash."

Niba Reports on Meeting With CME Group

By Daniel P. Collins | December 10, 2013

It took a little bit of time for market participants to respond to the new exchange and data fees that CME Group first announced on Nov. 12 this year.

Education Innovator Khan Wins CME Arditti Award

By Leo Melamed | December 3, 2013

The CME prize for innovation has since its inception in 2005 chosen individuals whose innovative ideas, products or services have created significant changes to markets, commerce or trade.

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