Success rate for individual investors trading options or futures? Less than 10%. The problem is that futures and options trading is highly...
Only within the past year has gold exceeded its 1980 high. At the time in 1980 when gold was roughly the same price as it is today, the Dow Jones...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080406/bs_nm/ford_barrons_dc_1 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares in automaker Ford Motor (F.N) could double from a...
I recall I had 4 or 5 tech stocks in my portfolio at the time. Two of my stops were hit, and I was ticked to see I had sold at the lows and the...
You might have to go to the web sites of each of the major futures exchanges and look for volume figures there. You can start with www.cbot.com...
I wish it was something anyone could trade. In the past, some of my most profitable futures trades were actually bets on weather. I've tried...
Market trades down Sunday night, opens lower Monday, then rises sharply to close Monday with a gain?
I've asked the same question. The British Pound is also not rising in recent months. There appears to be the most strength in the Euro. I...
Nikkei index price change past 18 years: January 1990 = 39000 March 2008 = 13000 Investment growth in 18 years = -67%
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The Euro has certainly been strong, but the dollar's weakness seems to be spotty, with only some currencies up. For example, the British Pound...
I'm not sure what my leverage is set at officially (I never changed it from the default, when I opened my account in 2004), but the largest...
I voted "no recession" because that was the closest to what I expect, which is a mild recession. I could not vote for a serious recession or a...
I've noticed this recently on Yahoo too, with some other stocks. I found that Yahoo had switched the default chart type to interactive java...
I'm not saying the only reason the Fed is acting is to support the stock market. Obviously, there are real economic problems that are causing...
Possibly this is because farmers are so fed up with the high cost of feed that they are selling their cattle and hogs quicker than normal, thus...
My personal theory, which is of course just a theory, is that the Fed is defending 11700 Dow. That number would represent an official 20%...
As I recall hearing it explained, the crash of '87 was a feedback loop that got out of control. Major fund managers subscribed to a mathematical...
I'm not saying this is what is absolutely going to happen. I'm just asking if there is any reason why it could not happen this way. If there is...
I don't doubt that a correlation exists; I'm just saying if it was as simple as "of course crude goes up because it takes more dollars to buy a...
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