Wednesday, February 22, 2012

If you buy a futures contract, you are basically agreeing to buy something that a seller has not yet produced for a set price in the future.

I am already trading options, self-taught. I like reading good books that expand my knowledge and abilities.

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Corn Futures Staged a Key Reversal in Tuesday's Forexrazor

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AgWeb Corn futures staged a key reversal in Tuesday'sForexrazorHigh-Risk Warning Forex, Futures, and Options trading has large potential rewards, but also large potential risks. The high degree of leverage can work against you as well as for you. You must be aware of the risks of investing in forex, futures, ...GrainTV AM Report 02/21/12AgWeb (blog) [...]

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Proven Chart Patterns: Key Indicators for Success in Todays

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Master trader Chris Manning presents proven, reliable chart patterns that pinpoint buy/sell signals for short and longer-term investors - plus precise indicators for developing each pattern. Manning's clear, comprehensive style is easy enough, even for those new to technical analysis. With a focus on using chart patterns to profit from today's markets and seizing market [...]

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An Options Trader Targets This Coffee Giant With a Short-Term Volatility Strategy

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An options trader targets this coffee giant with a short-term volatility strategy The shares of Starbucks Corp. (SBUX) have surged nearly 8% higher today, after the company announced that it will start selling its coffee and tea on Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc.'s (GMCR) single-serving K-Cup platform...( Read More ) Read more on Schaeffers Research [...]

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Brazil’s Bovespa Stock Futures Drop on German Trading Curbs

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Brazil’s Bovespa Stock Futures Drop on German Trading Curbs May 19 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s Bovespa stock-index futures fell after Germany prohibited naked short-selling and speculating on European government bonds with credit-default swaps. Read more on Bloomberg Tags: Futures, Germany, Read, trading

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Is Spread Betting Similar to Futures Trading?

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I want to know in your opinion in what ways you think that spread betting is similar to futures trading, and which one would be best recommended for someone who lives in the UK to trade stock market indices, commodities and shares? Tags: spread betting, betting, similar, spread

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AbleSys - NinjaTrader Partner Presentations - 2/8/2012

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Download NinjaTrader FREE at This video is a recording of our live partner event with Raphael Savrnoch, Ron Carbone and Jesse Wang of AbleSys. AbleSys NinjaTrader 7 is an award winning end to end online trading platform for discretionary and automated trading for stocks, futures and forex. Use it for FREE! Tags: Trade, brokers, ablesys

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Inside the Financial Futures Markets (Inside the Futures Market)

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Co-authored by Mark Powers who has been called one of the ``founding fathers of financial futures,'' this revised text contains more material than the previous edition. Along with expanded coverage of fixed income securities and foreign currency markets, it includes new chapters on portfolio insurance; interest rate and foreign currency swaps; options on fixed income [...]

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CFTC's Staff 'Criminal Club' Volcker Compliance BusinessWeek

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CFTC's Staff, 'Criminal Club', Volcker: ComplianceBusinessWeek15 (Bloomberg) -- The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission says it will shift enforcement staff to meet Dodd- Frank Act demands in 2012, after failing last year to adequately oversee CME Group Inc., the world's largest futures exchange.Trade Agency Proposes Adoption of Volcker RuleCourthouse News ServiceVolcker Said to Lobby SEC's [...]

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