Don't go too fast. I'm taking notes.
I'm going to train a parrot to constantly say "Buy!" and then sell it to Goldman.
I don't understand why he didn't just leverage up to the hilt if he was so far in the hole. If you've broken all the rules anyway, why not...
no mention of the carry trade?
You've got 2 days to bring about the break up of the European Union. Better get to work. (Just a little humor. Hope this works out for you.)
apex82 in the ES Journal might be what you're looking for. Although he has long since stopped posting.
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When I recently opened a futures account, another account was mistakenly joined to mine, and I could see trades being placed in his account. I...
Mexico financial crisis. $50 billion flowed into Mexico. U.S. banks were no longer in danger of collapsing as a result.
How dare they ask the financial industry to pay for a portion of the bailout of the financial industry. A bailout caused by the recklessness of...
The number of traders trading an index is fairly constant in the short term. The number of traders trading an individual stock can fluctuate...
Anyone know if there is a futures market in iron/iron ore? Are there speculators in the iron market?
1) It's not really about oil but commodities in general. Compare a chart of oil to the continuous CRB index (energy accounts for 18% of the...
Yes, that data includes both futures and options contracts. It can be found at the cftc.gov site.
According to the CFTC data, speculators are long 290383 contracts and short 276448 contracts. So of the 566831 contracts held by speculators,...
Still short. Current market conditions are like they were in late December '07 right before the market plunged. There's widespread acceptance...
CoT data came out today that updates us up to Tuesday 5/6 when oil was at $120. Amazingly, speculators as a group actually increased their short...
This is like watching paint dry. Somebody fat finger an order so I can get out of this coma.
You're right to a point. Speculators are net long as they have been all year. So there is something of a premium in the price due to them. The...
The CoT data don't show speculators pushing up the price of oil. www.softwarenorth.net/cot/current/charts/CL.png The previous run-ups in...
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