Posts tagged as: Commodity

Forex, Hedge Funds. Registering With the Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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ForEx, hedge funds. Registering with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Generally, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has jurisdiction over transactions in ForEx futures and options contracts offered to retail customers, and the only counterparties that can lawfully enter into these contracts with retail customers on an off-exchange basis are persons that are: (i) registered with the Commission [...]

Risk & Commodity Futures Trading

This week investors who thought they were avoiding risk saw their worst nightmare sentenced to 150 years, Madoff. Who are these investors, while attempting to avoid risk, were they simply naive, stupid or just plain greedy. How can one really expect to generate returns that were simply too good to be true. I was lucky [...]

How Much Money Do I Really Need for Commodity Futures Trading?

I am sure you have seen those late night informercials how to make a million dollars in commodity futures trading. How about an option strategy buying heating oil in the summer because it has to go up in the winter. Well guess what, it does not work that way. Commodity futures trading is the hardest [...]

Major Profits for Commodity Futures Trading In a Crisis

Every crisis has created major profits for commodity futures trading. When utilizing a Trend Following strategy a commodity trading advisor makes himself ‘available for oppurtunities”. Most of the time in commodity futures trading nothing happens. Interestingly enough, really nothing has to happen. However in commodity futures trading history virtually all of the crisis of the [...]

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING – WHAT TO KEEP IN MIND TO BE SUCCESSFUL

If you are considering going into and trading online commodity futures then do keep in mind that there is a large element of risk involved unless you reduce your risks and exposure with care. A such its sensible only to risk the capital that you can afford to lose and before doing anything take time [...]

Buy and Hold Versus Commodity Futures Trading

ooking 20 year in the future would be better off with a buy and hold strategy or commodity futures trading (trend following)? All seem to want the short cut that is why they are watching CNBC or Bloomberg. They are seeking the holy grail.. ( which in my terms is only Patience…Discipline and trend following [...]

Media’s Confusion with Commodity Futures Trading

There was an interesting article yesterday in the Wall Street Journal. The article spoke about Bluetrend a trend follower & commodity trading advisor who last year earned 43.4%. The article discussing the struggles that Blue trend is currently going through this year ( down 5.5%). The truth is, in commodity futures tradingreturns like last year [...]

Drawdowns in Commodity futures trading

As Ed Seyokta ( one of the legends of commodity futures trading) would say Drawdowns are like exhaling. If you want to make money in commodity futures trading you will have drawdowns. Drawdowns are a natural part of commodity futures trading. A drawdown is any losing period of a commodity trading advisor or in any [...]

Commodity Futures Trading Account – The Sensible Approach to Opening Your Trading Account

You are considering the trading of commodities, or the options on futures as a wonderful way to supplement your income. You can even go one step further and determine that trading commodities and futures is a wonderful way to make a living. This is a great idea! The futures can only go two directions; up [...]

Understanding the Fundamentals of Commodity Futures Trading

If we carefully look at the present business scenario then we could easily see that in recent time futures trading are gaining its world-wide popularity. In fact it is the most common trading found on many markets these days. As per the latest definitions- it is more like a trading of contracts called futures contracts, [...]

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