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Futures Trading 101: What Is A Speculator?
So what does it mean exactly to speculate? First there was, John Maynard Keynes speculating as a currency trader in the 1920’s where experience taught him, “The market can stay irrational longer than you can be solvent.” Then there was the hyperbolic oil market of 2008 where the NYMEX weekly...
The Oil Market: Is It 2008 All Over Again?
Shortly, after my days of trading I witnessed local gasoline prices steadily rise from a low of $1.50 to $3.98 per gallon over the years. During the bull market of 2008, I can recall sitting at my trading desk watching oil going higher and higher everyday wondering when it would stop. Finally it...
Weekend Wars: Traders vs. Funds
10/4. To military and police personnel, an affirmative acknowledgment. To investors and traders, the potential boiling point of a slow simmering feud. On this date, several high powered mutual-fund executives will convene at the Investment Company Institute in Washington D.C. and reportedly begin a...
Losing the Red Queen's Race
The Red Queen's Race is an apt analogy for the meltdown in assets and debt now swamping the global economy. The Red Queen's race refers to running very fast to stay in the same place. As asset values fall globally (except where massive government stimulus has pushed the day of reckoning forward a...
The Problem With Price Forecasting - Is There a Better Way?
David Threlkeld of metals trading advisor Resolved Inc. got some press this week. That happens when you predict a catastrophe. Threlkeld was quoted by Bloomberg repeating an ominous prediction he first made in May 2006. The call? That the copper market is heading for a catastrophic collapse. With...
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