Last Week’s Wrap Up
Not as much red this week across the markets as there has been recently, even with chaos swirling as Europe combats a debt crisis, U.S. politicians stall a debt ceiling hike and China feebly attempts to fight inflation. Stocks made a slight comeback, with the S&P 500 posting modest gains of .52% and the Nasdaq […]
Farewell, Pork Bellies
Futures trading history buffs are in mourning today, as the CME moves into a brave new world without pork bellies futures contract trading. The oldest existing CME livestock futures contract has seen a sharp decrease in volume over the years as the food processing industry transitioned away from the slabs of frozen pork and towards […]
Weekend Reads
As the week winds down, tensions in Washington D.C. are still wound tight while politicians grapple over a solution for the nation’s burgeoning debt and fast approaching debt ceiling. Markets have reacted predictably to the uncertainties both here and abroad, as concerns continue to loom large over Europe’s debt situation and economists question China’s ability […]
The Debt Ceiling, T-Bills, & Your Managed Futures Account
We’ve been putting the following simple question to some higher ups at the FCMs we work with this week: What would happen to client Tbill holdings should Congress not pass the debt ceiling legislation and the FCM can’t get redeem Tbills held in client accounts ? While this was at one time unthinkable and essentially […]
Inside the Zero
One of the comments that came up recently in an attack on managed futures was that futures trading is a zero sum game. This raised a couple of eyebrows among our readers, so we thought we’d take a moment to explain. Futures trading is a zero sum game in so far as there is one […]
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