184.Online Futures Trading Course Part 5: How Futures Trade
Hedging Is Simple, But Market Timing Is Not
What follows is some perspective on the buzz we're hearing about portfolio and fund manager performance in this horrendously painful bear-market year, which most investors would love to forget about--if only they could.While Miller Missteps (Again) . . . Recall that around this time in 2005, Bill... Continue Reading
Submitted ByLloyd Sakazaki
What follows is some perspective on the buzz we're hearing about portfolio and fund manager performance in this horrendously painful bear-market year, which most investors would love to forget about--if only they could.
While Miller Missteps (Again)...
Submitted ByLloyd Sakazaki
The global economy is in the doldrums. Collapsing housing prices and ensuing foreclosures have brought both borrowers and lenders to their knees, frozen credit markets, depressed stock prices, softened consumer demand, forced oil, metal (even gold) and other commodity prices lower, and now dragged...
Submitted ByLloyd Sakazaki
Old bulls versus younger bears. This could be entirely coincidental. Has anyone noticed that bullish sentiment seems correlated with age?
Bullish and Buying
The most prominent U.S. stock market bull to surface in recent days is highly respected Mr. Buffett, who was born in 1930 and grew up...
Submitted ByLloyd Sakazaki
With credit tight and real estate and stocks at multi-year lows, who wins and who loses? Certainly, any trader short the market or long put options is making out like a bandit, while anyone long real estate and stocks is experiencing painful net worth erosion.
But, in the midst of the financial...
Submitted ByLloyd Sakazaki
What should an investor do after a day like Monday, when the Dow, S&P, and Nasdaq all plummeted about 8% following Congress's "no" vote on the $700 billion bailout plan? Some say: "I wouldn't recommend anyone sell after a day like Monday but wouldn't be in a rush to buy stocks either." (See...
Submitted ByLloyd Sakazaki
I look out my office window and see a suburban scene pretty much as usual--a few parked cars, an occasional pedestrian, a tree-lined street, a bird flying by, . . . . Yet the headlines say we are in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are...
Submitted ByDavid Enke
The New York Times has an article today about how the CEO at Freddie Mac ignored the warnings signs of potential problems, in particular its financing of questionable loans that threatened its financial health. Not necessarily news, and you can decide who you want to believe, but it once again...
Submitted ByJeff Pietsch
As of 12:40 p.m. EST today, total SPY volume had totaled approximately 104.6 million shares. I read an article on the web this morning declaring this to be a "low-volume day." As shown below, volume is heaviest in the mornings and afternoons, and is fairly erratic bar-to-bar. This pattern is very...
Submitted ByBill Luby
Awhile back, a reader posed what sounded like a basic question: Isn't implied volatility a function of the size of the move, rather than direction? So why is VIX more commonly referred to as a fear index if high VIX can imply movements in both directions? I mean- HOW and exactly where does the...
Submitted ByMark McQueen
WSJ News item: SEC to stop “naked” short selling of financial stocks:
Under current rules, a short seller must first locate shares to borrow, but does not have to enter into a contract with the share lender. Often, more than one trader is able to borrow the same shares, creating a multiplier...
What follows is some perspective on the buzz we're hearing about portfolio and fund manager performance in this horrendously painful bear-market year, which most investors would love to forget about--if only they could.While Miller Missteps (Again) . . . Recall that around this time in 2005, Bill... Continue Reading 
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