May 2015
By
Daniel P. Collins
The 167-year history of Chicago’s futures trading pits is a rich one. Everyone who has spent time on the floor has their own unique stories. Here are just a few.
By
Daniel P. Collins
The 167-year history of Chicago’s futures trading pits is a rich one. Everyone who has spent time on the floor has their own unique stories. Here are just a few.
By
Daniel P. Collins
I recently had a conversation with industry stalwart and head of Wedbush Futures Carl Gilmore, and he mentioned that he and other leaders in the FCM space have had discussions wondering who will be the leaders of the industry 20 years from now.
By
Ashraf Laidi
The growing parallels between 2015 and 1998 in global market forces—soaring U.S. dollar, plummeting oil prices, rising equities, rising volatility and flattening U.S. yield curve—are startling.
By
Dan Keegan
How do you trade your opinion that a substantial move in either direction in a particular market is imminent?
By
Yesenia Duran
The value of metals, precious and base, serves as an indicator for the global economy, and right now the global outlook is disjointed and muddled, as is the outlook on metals.
By
Jay Sorkin
Many commodity traders have found success in being trend followers.
By
Bramesh Bhandari
The detrended price oscillator is useful to identify troughs in stock prices. It is used to estimate entry and exit points in line with the existing trend.
By
Art Collins
Developing a strong trading system is a give-and-take process. When you improve the system in one way, you inevitably hurt it in another. Striking the right balance is key.
By
Billy Williams
The Darvas box trading method can enhance your profits while greatly controlling risk. Here’s how to apply this technique.
By
Howard L. Simons
While central bank policy-makers steer economies through a difficult obstacle course, the impediments they are swerving to avoid may be the result of their policy choices.
By
Jean Folger
New technical indicators are being developed all the time, but sometimes a tried and true method is a better starting point for a strategy.
By
James Cordier
Short option strategies on futures are a different and potentially more profitable approach than using equity options.
By
Ellen R. Wald
Harold Hamm, CEO of Continental Resources, recently had these words of advice for fellow American shale producers: “Save that money. Avoid selling that production in this poor market and wait for service costs to fall [further] before completing those wells.”
By
Daniel P. Collins
When the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) bought the New York Board of Trade in 2006, David Martin understood that his floor trading days were numbered and began to prepare for life as an electronic trader—and eventually as a money manager.