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• News That Matters

  
  ZeroHedge — Authority: 781
      Thetrader.se The extended Santa Rally has surprised many. With the light volume melt up, many are rather confused at these levels. Shorts sweating, longs enjoying, but want to exit fast, if this turns lower. Volatility has collapsed, and people now hate anything called theta. HFT still dominating the market. ...
  5 days ago

• New ETF Filing: The PowerShares [Commodity Rotation] Portfolio ETF

  
  Stock Market News & Stocks to Watch from StraightStocks — Authority: 150
  Investment Objective The PowerShares [Commodity Rotation] Portfolio (the “Fund”) is an actively managed exchange traded fund (“ETF”) that seeks [capital appreciation.] Fund Fees and Expenses This table describes the fees and expenses that you m...
  1 week ago

• New Laws Possible In Wake of MF Globals Demise

  
  DealBook — Authority: 132
  The Senate Agriculture Committee is exploring regulatory changes following pleas from farmers, cattle ranchers and other futures industry customers who seek stronger protections for their money.
  1 week ago

• Rigid Dodd-Frank financial regulations may hurt farmers, say agriculture groups

  
  The Dodd-Frank Act Summary and News — Authority: 97
  (Photo by Rex Larsen) Financial reform regulations under the Dodd-Frank Act that are too rigid could damage the ability of small agricultural companies and individual farmers to obtain access to the financial risk management services that are vital to their business, said the National Association of Wheat ...
  1 week ago

• Wall Street investors will receive significant new protections under a plan adopted by federal regulators on Wednesday, an overhaul that comes in the wake of the collapse of MF Global.

  
  InvestmentWatch: Emerging markets, Real Estate, Personal finance, Business management, Politics, Economics — Authority: 148
  When MF Global filed for bankruptcy last year, some $1.2 billion in customer money vanished from the brokerage firm. The firm’s futures customers, farmers and hedge funds alike, are still without nearly a third of their money. But the new rules would not prevent a brokerage firm from repeating MF Global’s mistake ...
  1 week ago

• Gold & Silver Banker-Cartel Prolonged Price Suppression Has Set the Foundation for an Explosive Move Higher in 2012

  
  ZeroHedge — Authority: 781
  Recently, public interest in gold and silver and gold/silver mining stocks has been at multi-year lows. And that is a super bullish contrarian indicator. In fact, a glance at the Gold Miners Bullish Percent Index illustrates that sentiment to start the year was at a three-year low.     At the end of last year, ...
  1 week ago

• SPX Small Traders Get Excessively Bullish

  
  COTs Timer — Authority: 92
  The wrong-way small traders have gotten excessively bullish in their positioning in S&P 500 futures and options, according to the latest Commitments of Traders report. Thats helped push my setup for the S&P 500 into the bearish column with a three-week trade delay, meaning the trade takes effect the open of ...
  1 week ago

• Things you should know about Risks Involved in Futures Trading

  
  Online Trading Courses, Forex, Stocks, Options, Futures Trading — Authority: 110
  The key to success in futures trading lies in observing the risk..Futures trading, because you’re gambling with something that is yet to happen, is nowhere near accurate.Futures trading is a risky business and anybody who will tell you otherwise, that it is 100% risk free, is daft or is trying to sell you something. ...
  1 week ago

• Overnight Long/Intraday Short Gold Fund More Than Doubles In Just Over A Year: Generates 43% Annualized Return

  
  ZeroHedge — Authority: 781
  Back in August 2010, we presented an idea proposed by our friends at SK Options trading for a very simple trading strategy: being long gold in the overnight session, and shorting it during the day. At the time of writing, such a strategy would have returned $2.16 billion from a $100 million initial investment in ...
  1 week ago

• Overnight Long/Intraday Short Gold Fund More Than Doubles In Just Over A Year: Generates 43% Annualized Return

  
  In The Spirit of Jubilee — Authority: 138
  Back in August 2010, we presented an idea proposed by our friends at SK Options trading for a very simple trading strategy: being long gold in the overnight session, and shorting it during the day. At the time of writing, such a strategy would have returned $2.16 billion from a $100 million initial investment in ...
  1 week ago

• CFTC finalizes new swaps rules, meets with immediate criticism

  
  The Dodd-Frank Act Summary and News — Authority: 97
  New swaps rules finalized by the CFTC this week have met with immediate criticism already. In an open meeting this week to make progress on actions required by the Dodd-Frank Act , the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) approved three final rules, a delegation order, and proposed its version of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Execution List Author Talks Settlement With CFTC, Decries Lawsuit

  
  FINalternatives — Authority: 523
  A former hedge fund manager who admitted to threatening the lives of a raft of government officials has said that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission offered to settle its civil case against him. read more
  2 weeks ago

• Eric Sprott: "The Financial System Is A Farce"

  
  ZeroHedge — Authority: 781
  From Eric Sprott and David Baker The Financial System is a Farce: Part Three 2011 was a merry-go-round of more bailouts, more deferrals and more denial. Everyone is tired of the Eurozone. It’s not fixable. There’s too much debt. The politicians don’t know what’s going on. Nothing has structurally changed. ...
  2 weeks ago

• MF GLOBAL 4-1-9

  
  ZeroHedge — Authority: 781
    Subject: Nigerian Astronaut Wants To Come Home Dr. Bakare Tunde Obama III Astronautics Project Manager MF GLOBAL NIGERIA 4-1-9 Plot 555 Wall Street Street PMB 437 Garki, Abuja, FCT NIGERIA Dear Mr. Sir, URGENT ELECTRONIC EMAIL REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL I am Dr. Bakare Tunde Obama ...
  2 weeks ago

• CFTC Proposes Volcker Rule

  
  FINalternatives — Authority: 523
  The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has finally acted on the Volcker rule, proposing a new regulation that would ban banks from trading their own capital and severely restrict their investments in alternative assets. read more
  2 weeks ago

• News That Matters

  
  ZeroHedge — Authority: 781
      By www.thetrader.se   Ft.com  Japan wants to keep importing crude oil from Iran despite rising pressure from the US to cooperate in strengthening sanctions against the Islamic Republic, reports the WSJ, citing an unnamed official at Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ...
  2 weeks ago

• News That Matters

  
  In The Spirit of Jubilee — Authority: 138
      By www.thetrader.se   Ft.com  Japan wants to keep importing crude oil from Iran despite rising pressure from the US to cooperate in strengthening sanctions against the Islamic Republic, reports the WSJ, citing an unnamed official at Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Easy and Great Tips about Futures Trading Commodities Charts

  
  Online Trading Courses, Forex, Stocks, Options, Futures Trading — Authority: 110
  Have a problem in Reading Futures Trading Commodities Charts? Here you will learn HOW..Through Futures Trading Commodities charts, traders will be able to predict future outcome of bonds and prices.Futures Trading Commodities charts are more than just lines and patterns. Trading charts are essential in a futures ...
  2 weeks ago

• Exploiting Idiosyncratic Volatility in Commodity Futures [PREMIUM]

  
  CXO Advisory Blog - Investing Notes — Authority: 111
  Can investors exploit idiosyncratic volatility exhibited by commodity futures? In their December 2011 paper entitled “Idiosyncratic Volatility Strategies in Commodity Futures Markets”, Adrian Fernancez-Perez, Ana-Maria Fuertes and Joelle Miffre investigate the usefulness of idiosyncratic volatility as a predictor ...
  3 weeks ago

• When the euro shorts take off

  
  MacroScope — Authority: 530
  Currency speculators boosted bets against the euro to a record high in the latest week of data (to end December 27) and built up the biggest long dollar position since mid-2010, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Here — courtesy of Reuters’ graphics whiz Scott Barber, is what happens to the ...
  3 weeks ago

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