SunGard's Kiodex Real Time Enhanced with Expanded Market Coverage for Commodity Trading
SunGard has released additional capabilities for its Kiodex Real Time trade capture, position-keeping, mark-to-market and risk management solution for commodities. The enhancements provide expanded coverage of trading venues to include several new markets under the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), giving firms the ability to access real-time trade and pricing data on a single platform.
Commodity Trading - Advantages and Disadvantages
What Is Commodity Trading?Commodity futures markets allow commercial producers and commercial consumers to offset the risk of adverse future price movements in the commodities that they are selling or buying.In order to work a futures contract must be standardised.
Market Risk - Not To Be Ignored or Overlooked
The first of a two part article&. Fund managers, whether they be equity or bond traders, know all too well that returns are not simply a result of their asset selection prowess. Many external factors come into play. But what are the issues facing the professional money manager.
How Commodity Trading Differs from Stock Trading
There are major differences between trading stocks and trading
futures. While stories of fortunes made or lost overnight on the futures markets are largely untrue, the futures trader, if using a sound trading system, can usually make more money on the futures market and make it much faster.
African American Investment Expert Wrote the Book on Commodity Trading -- Enlightening African American and Young Investors and Offering One Month Com
Shownna Clarke's upwardly mobile corporate growth has taken her from TIAA-CREF Investment Accounting Associate to Credit Suisse First Boston Account Coordinator to Assistant Vice President of International Sales at one of the world's oldest and most prestigious investment firms. She is an investment expert who is wholly qualified to guide you through the relatively obscure and rewarding world of commodity trading. In "ABC's to Commodity Trading: the Handbook for Beginners," Clarke shares with her readers how to make up to $1,000 on a penny price move.
Commodity Trading With Stochastic Oscillators
The stochastic oscillator was developed in the late fifties by George Lane. It is an oscillator which shows momentum in a commodity by comparing the current day's close to the high/low ranges over a specified amount of days. Consistent closings near the higher side of the range indicates buying pressure while a close consistently on the lower side of the range indicates weakness and selling pressure. It shows whether a commodity is overbought or oversold. The calculation of the formula is as follows:
Altegris Investments, Inc. Launches ManagedFutures.com: Updated Research and Marketing Website for Managed Futures Investors and Commodity Trading Adv
Altegris Investments, Inc. (Altegris) formally announced today the launch of a complete update to the ManagedFutures.com website (), which provides a public face for the managed futures capabilities of the firm. This new version of ManagedFutures.com includes many significant new features designed to help investors (including individual investors and institutional allocators) and managers (including Commodity Trading Advisors and Commodity Pool Operators) meet their goals in the managed futures space.
Announcing Managed Futures with Foss Mountain Capital: Help for High Net Worth Investors to Position Their Investment Portfolios in Today's Volat
Foss Mountain Capital breaks down the details of a managed futures account and outlines the benefits therein. They also explain the due diligence process of manager search and selection.
Vision Capital Management (Commodity Trading Advisor) Announces April 2008 Returns
Vision Capital Management, a Commodity Trading Advisor trading commodity futures, has announced its April 2008 returns at . Vision Capital Management trend-follows 55 commodity futures markets on 14 exchanges over 6 continents. The most active commodity futures markets that Vision Capital Management traded in April were Crude Oil futures, Cocoa futures, S&P 500 futures, and Pork Belly futures.
Online Commodity Trading
With the threat of recession looming large, GDP growth looking anemic and inflation is touching new height every fortnight, should you consider investing your hard earned cash into the stock market? Or more importantly, is trading a wise choice considering such a stormy climate? If you looking for a new way of investment, look no further than online commodity trading and you can earn rich rewards depending on your investment, knowledge, risk taking ability amongst other things.
BCM Launches CTA Database For Managed Futures Investors
Balarie Capital Management recently announced that they have launched a free CTA database that tracks several hundred Commodity Trading Advisors. The CTA database allows individual and institutional investors (family offices, endowments, pensions) to view performance data on several hundred different Commodity Trading Advisors from all over the globe. Each CTA program contains 2 full pages of performance results, statistical data, and comparison analysis. In addition, database subscribers can search for specific managers based on specific criteria or combine managers to create their own custom portfolios.
A Primer on Commodity Trading
Although most investors are solely familiar with equity trading, such as stocks or mutual funds, or investing in debt, such as bonds, commodity trading tends to be ignored despite the fact that it possesses many advantages over other types of investment instruments. Let's begin by defining what a 'commodity' is in the first place.
Can Commodity Trading Set You Free
That statement seems to be able to be applied to almost any market and any situation, as not only commodity trading, but any market has the ad line that says you can work anywhere in the world and be independent and not answer to anyone - all this can be yours if you just trade, trade and trade some more
Wrapping Your Head Around Online Commodity Trading
Online commodity trading has since become a full fledged career option - from the niche status it enjoyed for a time Now, almost everyone can start a business endeavour on commodity trading and with the ease of the internet, there are no more barriers to speak of in connecting with a broker and the market
What You Should Look For In An Effective Commodity Trading System
Does your trading story read like mine? The first 12 - 15 years, when I traded, I eagerly digested all the books I could lay my hands on. I went to day trading courses, tutorials and lectures and bought software packages to help devise a unique trading system of my own.
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Enron Commodity Trading was Not Original
If one were to go an annual report for El Paso Energy from 2000; they would find on page 11 of the shareholders report a picture of their 80,000 square foot trading floor, with 700 merchant staff. Enron many thought had in fact originated this; once upon a time claiming to be the largest in the world energy trading floor. So it was not new for Enron have come up with the concept, yes as far as trading floors for energy were concerned they did build a bigger one. It was not totally innovative for them to have more traders at that point, not even very innovative to trade other things like; lumber futures to Del Webb or Pulte Homes or US Homes, or bandwidth or water rights on top of their oil and gas trading and pipeline over capacity. Trading the raw energy itself had been done before and so had the trading of environmental credits and contracts. That is an obvious and viable way to reduce pollution through free enterprise proven efficiencies. The El Paso –Merchant Energy Group's 2000 earnings before taxes was 960 million, 1999 it was 329 million and in 1998 it exceeded 293 million. That group traded LNG, Power generation, financial services, coal and oil and gas and power assets. They also had global networks division, which was in the telecommunications business. Of course a simple look at El Paso Energy shows although they profited most from trading they were grounded by owning and acquiring pipelines, refining, drilling, oil field services, storage of product, and other real life services. On page 48, 49, 50, 51 and 52 of the 2000 annual report you will see about 15 partnerships and limited partnerships being used for all kinds of stuff. The whole report contains not less than 90 subsidiaries and limited partnerships with all kinds of sweet heart deals of stock swaps and stock options and voting rights. So Enron took normal industry type methods and really worked the system. Taking what was working well to the benefit of the user and industry and increasing it ten folf. Of course if you look at any railroad company they do the same thing it has been going on since Rockefeller days. I am not sure the Enron thing did not go further because it was bigger. If it was making money it would not have mattered and it would have been business as usual, yet with the market driving it down in its final days and the stock plummeting and the serious junk credit rating down grade, of course now then it was all illegal. Perhaps the biggest issue was the hiding of transparency along with creative book keeping with their friends at A. Anderson and the façade which followed. When El Paso merged with Coastal everything was forgotten and the company moved on. What if Dynenergy merged with Enron and then all the old data of Enron was gone? And the Global Crossing Quest Deal had been a go, then what? What if GE had merged with Honeywell, maybe they would not be in dire straights. It seems the idea here is to run up the stock and look good on paper even though you are running on fumes and barrowed to the hilt and then sell at the top and forget about it. Well this time the greatest escape plan fell short and this time it was serious. In the case of the pre-merger audit with El Paso Energy and the Coastal Corporation, then changed to El Paso CGP Corporation for the merger the audits were done by separate companies. PriceWaterHouseCooper did el Paso Energy and Deloitte & Touche LLP did The Coastal Corporation. Yet whatever the overlap it is simply historical data, and who is to say if either company was as financially stable as it was prior to the whole? Think if Enron and Dynenergy would have merged and all those little partnerships had been able to cash in at Dynenergy. WOW, talk about a run on the bank that would have been. I wonder how many LLCs of Enron contained board members of Dynenergy, that would sure add fire to the flame. Maybe none, but what if? What if the merger took place and know one knew? What would our country look like today? We would not have had Sarbaines Oxley, we would have less regulation, less attacks from attorneys generals on business and industry. We would have less off shoring of corporations, less outsourcing of jobs and we would have never lost 7 trillion in our stock market. Privatizing one-third social security would not be an issue, everyone would want in. We would have more confidence in our markets and less worry of being passed by China as the leader of the free world. Think about it? "Lance Winslow" - If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs
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