Futures (Cedar Falls, IA) articles from March 2006

Futures (Cedar Falls, IA) archives from March 2006

Power Tools
March 1, 2006... The growth of the alternative funds business has been nothing short of spectacular. Managed futures has roughly $130 billion in assets under management, according to Barclay Trading Group. But according to Hedge Fund Reports, today there is an...

War of the Mergers: European Consolidation Being Leveraged
March 1, 2006... Euronext, Deutsche Boerse (DB) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE) appear to be negotiating for control of Western European exchanges. The Children's Investment Fund (TCI) and Atticus Capital, which led the charge to halt DB Chairman Rolf...

Has ICE Frozen out Nymex? Energy Markets Heat Up
March 1, 2006... Energies have been the hot sector of late and that has created increased interest and competition, forcing the confirmed leader, the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), to face added competition. Large-scale changes will soon affect the energy...

Going where the action is: Nybot going electronic?(Trendlines)
March 1, 2006... The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) and the New York Board of Trade (Nybot) signed a non-binding agreement in January to host Nybot's financial products on the CBOT's electronic trading platform, powered by Atos Euronext Market Solutions'...

Getting cold down there: will CBOT plug in grains?(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... The CBOT may be ready to list its agricultural contracts electronically side-by-side with open outcry. In January CBOT's board of directors called for a special meeting of members scheduled for March 8 to approve changes to rules for...

CFTC to "evolve" U.S. exchanges.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... As the U.S. exchanges go public, the CFTC is looking to make significant changes to the present system of self-regulation, but the changes would be more evolutionary than revolutionary, according to a statement made by CFTC Chairman Reuben...

Uniform regulation.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... The Financial Services Agency, Japan's financial watchdog, ordered the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) to report on planned improvements after its computer system was not able to stop a botched trade in December where a Mizuho Securities Co....

Keeping tabs.(International News)
March 1, 2006... Cargill Investor Services (CIS), which Refco Inc. purchased just before filing for bankruptcy, lost an effort to keep its clearing function from Man Financial, which has purchased Refco. CIS had argued that if an exclusive clearing agreement,...

Davidson back at CME.(Trading Places)
March 1, 2006... John P. Davidson III has rejoined the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), this time as managing director and chief corporate development officer. He will oversee strategic planning, business development and corporate project management and be...

Dow Jones & Co.(Trading Places)
March 1, 2006... Kevin Pilarski is now president and CEO of Falcon Global Funds Group. Pilarski, a 20-year veteran in alternative asset management and financial derivatives markets, moves from Dow Jones & Co. where he served as the director of alternative...

RTS Realtime Systems Inc.(Trading Places)
March 1, 2006... John J. Dempsey has joined RTS Realtime Systems Inc. as business development manager. Dempsey, a founder of Brightwater Training LLC, will focus on relationships with exchange representatives in electronic markets, develop a global partner...

Liquidity Direct Technology where Brady was CEO.(Trading Places)
March 1, 2006... Neal Brady is now the CME's director of products and services. Brady had been consulting for the CME after it bought Liquidity Direct Technology where Brady was CEO.

HedgeStreet Inc.(Trading Places)
March 1, 2006... Stephen M. Race is the new CEO of HedgeStreet Inc. Previously, Race ran his own consulting company.

Hedge Funds Moving On?
March 1, 2006... With the war over in regards to hedge fund registration, hedge fund professionals at the Managed Funds Association Network Conference in Key Biscayne, Fla., wanted to know what to expect from the new registration rule and subsequent Security and...

Live cattle drive lower.(Hot Commodities)
March 1, 2006... One month after lifting a two-year ban on beef imports from the United States, Japan has reinstated the ban after boxes of veal were found to contain backbone. As a result futures prices on live cattle have dropped to $91 per hundred weight...

One lump, or two?(Brief Article)
March 1, 2006... World sugar prices hit 25-year highs in early February and traded as high as 19.73 cents per pound on the New York Board of Trade, doubling in price since mid August. At root is a confluence of fundamental factors, including drought in...

Yen under pressure.(Hot Commodities)
March 1, 2006... Nas Nijjar, senior forex trader at CMC Markets, says the U.S. dollar/Japanese yen cross has been helped by traders turning away from U.S. dollar backed currencies in favor of gold, a move compelled by terror issues, the murder of oil workers...

Sugar: The 32-Year Trend
March 1, 2006... The recent bull market in sugar was somewhat predictable but don't fret if you were late because there may be more to go. Here is how it has played out so far. Brazil in 2004 announced it was 100% energy efficient. This makes sense because it...

An Uncertain Future for Equities
March 1, 2006... Interest rates rose for the fourteenth time. Ben Bernanke is the new Federal Reserve Chairman. The stock market took back most of its early-year advance. The yield curve inverted. And in January, numerous major company earnings came up short and...

Tech Talk: The Trend(line) Is Your Friend!
March 1, 2006... Traders face a dizzying number of indicators and methods to help them determine the next move in the markets. You have oscillators, moving averages and Fibonacci retracements just to name a few. Computerized charting software has further...

Forex Trading Tips
March 1, 2006... The challenge of successfully trading forex lays in its global nature. Every economic transaction in the world, at some point settles into a currency. The forex trader is therefore constantly filtering through a morass of information. The common...

Trading Rectangles: Tactics and Money Management; Rectangle Trading Patterns, When Mastered, Can Produce Profitable Indicators with Tight Stops to Give the Trader the Money Management Skills to Exploit Them to Their Full Potential
March 1, 2006... A strong trading signal must be accompanied by solid money management for a trader to fully exploit the benefit of the signal. Money management concerns the proper administration of profits and losses and must be synchronized with trading...

Forget the Psychobabble-It's the System! in Many Circles, Proper "Trader Psyche" Is the Most Important Factor for Successful Trading. for Others a Solid System Implemented Properly Beats a Trader with the Right Psychological Makeup and the Wrong System
March 1, 2006... Evaluating and improving trader psychology has become a cottage industry in recent years. Numerous books have been written, several by this author, about the subject. While important, excessive focus on the psychology of trading may take up more...

Metals/energies Rallies Good for Grains: The Recent Bull Market in Metals and Energies Mirrors to Some Extent Their 1995 Moves, Which Preceded a Bull Grain Market. Will History Repeat Itself Pushing Grains to Much Higher Levels in 2006?
March 1, 2006... You often hear or read about the term "rotation" when different market sectors take turns exhibiting relative strength. In a bullish situation, this tends to occur when one major group runs up to a peak and then begins to flatten out as the flow...

Tradecision V 2.1.67
March 1, 2006... Tradecision V 2.1.67 Alyuda Research 4432-E Enterprise Street Fremont, CA 94538 (888) 862-2759; (347) 416-6083 sales@tradecision.com www.tradecision.com OVERALL RATING: Poor LEVEL: Advanced. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:...

Contract dates.(Calendar)
March 1, 2006... 1 FND: BM & F Conillion coffee F, Corn F, Cotton F, LTD: BM & F Alcohol OF, Alcohol OF, CME Mexican TIIE F. [TABLE OMITTED] 2 FND: BM & F Alcohol F, Arabica coffee F, Arabica coffee F, LTD: CME Feb Milk F,OF, Feb Mid-sized milk OF,...

Events coming up.(Calendar)
March 1, 2006... Call the numbers listed for more information. For other seminars, see the classifieds on pages 80-85. FIAs 31st Annual International Futures Industry Conference. MARCH 15-18. Marriott Boca Raton Resort and Club. Boca Raton, Fla....

Di Tomasso: Surviving and Thriving
March 1, 2006... Normally when researching managers for the Top Traders issue, a worst drawdown of 85% would automatically eliminate a manager. But when a program comes back from that type of drawdown to earn a compound annual return of 48.45% throughout a...