Futures (Cedar Falls, IA) articles from July 2006

Futures (Cedar Falls, IA) archives from July 2006

From froth to bubbles?(EDITOR'S NOTE)
July 1, 2006... In late May news pages were filled with stories that the runup in commodities prices was just a "bubble," and it shouldn't last long as some prices were already coming down. Curious, we put a call into our friend Jim Rogers to see what he had...

NYSE-Euronext: what's in it for futures?(Trendlines)
July 1, 2006... We'll have to wait a while before seeing benefits from the planned merger between the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Euronext, but a slew of long-planned upgrades to the Liffe. Connect trading platform promise to deliver tangible benefits...

Change in the air: MiFID is coming.(Trendlines)(Markets in Financial Instruments Directive )
July 1, 2006... NYSE-Euronext may have grabbed headlines in June, but leading European market participants would rather see attention focused on the sweeping restructuring of the continent's financial markets known as the Markets in Financial Instruments...

Traders feel squeeze: CBOT flexes muscle.(Trendlines)
July 1, 2006... The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) is increasing its fee for clearing, to 6 cents from 5 cents, as well as transaction fees on exchange for physicals (EFP), exchange for swaps (EFS) and electronic trading fees on agricultural futures. The fee...

Chartview: no bubble here.(Trendlines)
July 1, 2006... Since many energy and metal markets peaked in May there has been a raft of stories in the financial press about a commodity bubble. Because most analysts missed the last bubble, they appear to be overcompensating by seeing bubbles everywhere...

Cash oil: Nymex goes side-by-side.(Trendlines)
July 1, 2006... On June 12, the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) launched 12 energy contracts on the CME's Globex trading platform. The launch included full-sized and mini contracts. However, the full-sized contracts weren't electronic versions of Nymex's...

Jones to replace Riley at ISE.(Trading Places)
July 1, 2006... Frank J. Jones has been named chairman of the International Securities Exchange (ISE). Jones has been a director at ISE since 2000 and was vice chairman. Previously he was chief information officer of Guardian Life Insurance Co., and managing...

Trading Technologies.(Trading Places)
July 1, 2006... Bill Herder will join Trading Technologies as VP and managing director of TTNET, responsible for managing all aspects of TT's ASP. Most recently, Herder served as business development director at Rolfe & Nolan Systems Inc.

FX Solutions.(Trading Places)
July 1, 2006... FX Solutions has named Dr. Steven Janowsky head of financial engineering. Previously he was the head of analytical software development at the Clinton Group.

Minneapolis Grain Exchange.(Trading Places)
July 1, 2006... Drew Koenig joined the Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX) as manager of information technology. Nancy Krull joined MGEX as marketing manager.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange.(Trading Places)
July 1, 2006... The Chicago Mercantile Exchange named Richard H. Lamm managing director of the regulatory counsel. Most recently he led a financial markets public policy unit at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

GL Trade.(Trading Places)
July 1, 2006... Andrew Hobbs is now head of the post trade derivatives business at GL Trade in London. Previously he was responsible for sales, marketing and business development of UBIX with Ubitrade.

Pick a study, any study.(Managed Money Review)
July 1, 2006... You may become confused regarding the value of investing in hedge funds by reading various academic studies on them. They often offer conflicting results and there appears to be more and more of them. Richard Oberuc, president of the...

An order for iced coffee.(Hot Commodities)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Coffee is one of the few physical commodities that has not benefited from the overall bull commodity market. Even the usual winter "freeze scare" rally hasn't materialized this year. "A lot of people are trying to pick a bottom," says Robert...

The silver bell tolls.(Hot Commodities)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... A massive fund liquidation precipitated by interest rate hikes, fear of inflation and a global economic slowdown has beaten silver back, giving up a third of its value in the last month. "Markets can't just go straight up," says Tom Farmer, a...

The big drag.(Hot Commodities)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... The mid-June equity sell off hit the S & Ps hard, taking out the year's low and suggesting the index could challenge the lows from October 2005. Fear of a global economic slow down, the newly hawkish Fed and the threat of more rate hikes around...

Tough choice time for Fed.(Market Watch)(Federal Reserve)
July 1, 2006... Dilemmas are nothing new for the Federal Reserve, and it's that time again. It was easy enough for the Fed's policy-making Open Market Committee (FOMC) to jack up the federal funds rate when it was obvious that rates were too stimulative for an...

Is there a chill in the air? The U.S economy has shown signs of cooling but uncertainties still lie ahead. Just how much will growth slow for the remainder of the year? Will inflation pressures send equities in a downward spiral? And the most pressing question: is the Fed done tightening? Here's what the experts have to say.(MARKETS)(Cover story)
July 1, 2006... Most analysts agree the red hot growth of the U.S. economy witnessed in the first half of the year is cooling off; housing and manufacturing reports back this up. For instance, in early June U.S. factory activity gains slowed and the real...

Tech talk: ending diagonal in the S & P 500.(MARKETS)
July 1, 2006... The S & P 500 is going to be watched extremely carefully by many market technicians throughout the next few weeks. In February it traced out a terminating pattern. That pattern in Elliott Wave terminology is called an ending diagonal triangle....

A time to sell?(Market Strategy)
July 1, 2006... The stock market has been in a bull cycle since the October 2002 low. One of the most reliable cycles of all is the four-year cycle, also known as the presidential cycle. This cycle falls in the middle of a presidential term and gets its name...

Patterns of losses in forex.(Forex Trader)
July 1, 2006... Losing trades are part of the total trading experience. While losing trades can't be avoided (don't believe the hype from firms that claim 50 winning trades in a row), traders should look to benefit from an analysis of their losing trades and...

When Treasuries turn: treasury prices have been falling while yields have been rising. But just because a market is oversold, doesn't mean it has to rise--markets can and do stay oversold for extended periods of time. More reliable clues to imminent turns can be found in sentiment rather than price-based oscillators.(TRADING TECHNIQUES)
July 1, 2006... Bonds are reeling and as prices keep falling, yields continue to rise. The prospect of a sharp jump in market rates is not just important to bond traders; almost all investors are affected through mortgages or other loans, valuations in the...

Will grains follow metals? When you combine seasonal trends during the first half of the year with cooling metals prices and the end of interest rate hikes, 2006 could look like 1995's bull market for grains.(TRADING TECHNIQUES)
July 1, 2006... On a day-to-day basis, traders are best served by focusing on the ordinary while looking for indications for the extraordinary. When it comes to grains, this means you should trade with the seasonal bias while at the same time recognizing...

The Forex Trading Expo[SM].
July 1, 2006... Las Vegas * September 8-9, 2006 Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino 5 Reasons Why Attending The Forex Trading Expo Will Improve Your Trading: * Education: conference sessions on topics ranging from trading systems to technical...

How to price Eurodollar options: the LLP model, a unique option-pricing model, now can be used to price Eurodollar futures. It has advantages in generating useful pricing formulas for trading and hedging purposes.(TRADING TECHNIQUES)
July 1, 2006... The large number of strike prices covered by options on Eurodollar futures makes them an excellent source of data to use in building analytical pricing models. A typical set of option prices is shown in "Call option price curve" (below). This...

Naked risks: exposing yourself to the market; Naked option selling is popular due to its high probability of success. Indeed, if done right, this technique can generate reliable returns. However, you also need to look at the big picture of return on margin when you consider this strategy.(TRADING TECHNIQUES)
July 1, 2006... There are many ways to decide whether to take a trade. If you trade futures, you probably predict price direction, risk and potential reward based on recent chart action. Return on investment probably is not part of the equation. If you...

Building trading systems the automatic way: your computer can build your trading system and do it more efficiently and effectively than you can. In this first of two parts, we discuss new technologies that have made this processing-intensive approach possible. In the second part, we'll build a viable system.(TECHNOLOGY & TRADING)
July 1, 2006... Advances in technology now allow reliable trading systems to be built with evolutionary software that "writes" the rules for the strategies. Such trading system software generators can operate up to 200 times faster than other related...

Inside The House Of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in the Global Markets.
July 1, 2006... Inside The House Of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in the Global Markets By Steven Drobny John Wiley & Sons Inc. 356 pages, $29.95 Steven Drobny, former hedge fund advisor and co-founder of the research and...

Timing the Market: How to Profit in the Stock Market Using the Yield Curve. Technical Analysis and Cultural Indicators.
July 1, 2006... Timing the Market: How to Profit in the Stock Market Using the Yield Curve. Technical Analysis and Cultural Indicators By Deborah J. Weir John Wiley & Sons Inc. 413 pages, $60 The term "market timing" has had a bad connotation...

Your friend the Fed: when the Federal Reserve talks, traders listen and markets move. Here's a look at the Fed, the tools it uses to manage the economy and what its actions mean to the market.(FUTURES 101)
July 1, 2006... New Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben S. Bernanke recently learned an important and difficult lesson. After telling Congress in late April the Federal Reserve Bank may pause in its campaign to raise interest rates, a move that triggered a...

Webinars are new classrooms.(Online Trading)(Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.)
July 1, 2006... Gone are the days when an aspiring trader could get a job as a runner on a trading floor to learn the business from the ground up. Most of those support jobs are gone along with the traders they served. Markets still need traders though, and...

Predicting manager success; Every commodity trading advisor provides a disclaimer that states "past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results." That begs the question: how do you know which managers will perform well? One group says they have found the answer.(MANAGED MONEY)
July 1, 2006... Despite disclaimers warning against it, past performance is exactly how most investors, whether institutional or individual, determine who to invest with. There are obviously other factors; institutional investors want to make sure a trading...

Trading Blox.(Software Review)
July 1, 2006... Trading Blox P.O. Box 378 Harvard, MA 01451 (617) 933-9096 E-mail: salesinfo@tradingblox.com Web: www.tradingblox.com OVERALL RATING: Excellent LEVEL: Beginner to advanced. PRICE: Prices vary by edition from...

Want to buy a sukuk? Islamic financing is growing rapidly and the West wants in. With a huge influx of oil dollars and expanding U.S. trade and budget deficits, are the dollar's days as the world's reserve currency numbered?(TRADE TRENDS)
July 1, 2006... Imagine living in a parallel financial world where bankbooks earn rents, leases procure homes and scholars vet stocks. A world where merchants divulge profit margins in advance to buyers and commodities stream as dividends from capital...

Contract dates.(Dateline)(Calendar)
July 1, 2006... 3 LTD: BM & F Alcohol OF, CME Jun Weather F. [TABLE OMITTED] 7 LTD: CME Butter OF, Frozen Pork Bellies OF, Pork bellies, frozen OF, Butter OF, Currencies OF, Peso OF, Rand OF, Euronext-Liffe Feed wheat F, Nybot Cotton F, Currencies OF,...

Events coming up.(Calendar)
July 1, 2006... Call the numbers listed for more information. For other seminars, see the classifieds on pages 69-73. Commodity Investment Summit 2006. JULY 4-6. The Park Lane Hotel, London. www.wbresearch.com. +44 (0) 20-7368-9465. 2006 Blue Ribbon...

Carol "Mickey" Norton: breaking barriers.(Trader Profile)
July 1, 2006... Aside from being a limited-partner of the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Bulls, with seven World Championship rings to prove it, there's something else that's interesting about Carol "Mickey" Norton: she's known as the first woman trader on...

Alphabetical company listings.(2006 GUIDE TO COMPUTERIZED TRADING)(Directory)
July 1, 2006... Listed here are companies that have computerized trading-related products and services featured in the list beginning on page 44. You will find each company's address, phone and fax numbers, as well as the categories in which it offers...

Product list.(2006 GUIDE TO COMPUTERIZED TRADING)(Directory)
July 1, 2006... This list contains the names of specific products and services offered by the companies listed in this year's guide. These are actual product names and not generic or descriptive terms. You will find contact information for companies offering...

Products & services.(2006 GUIDE TO COMPUTERIZED TRADING)(Directory)
July 1, 2006... This directory lists companies that offer products or services of interest to traders, investors or firms using a computer to trade or for trading-related business. Listed in alphabetical order by company, each listing includes the product...