If you”re confused by commodities, you”re not alone. Reading commodity prices can be especially confusing. Read this article to learn how to read gold, natural gas, live cattle, coffee and corn prices.
If you”ve been reading the newspaper lately, you”ve doubtless seen how much inflation has gone up over the last two years. You might be thinking, as many do, that this is likely to continue for the next two years. However, you can hedge your portfolio against inflation and maybe even pick up some profits by investing in gold. Read this article to learn how.
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There are several different types of commodities. Commodities are categorized so that it’’s easier to price compare, do research, and to make other trade tasks convenient. If you”re an investor who wants to get involved in commodities trading, you need to know the basics. This is indeed one of the riskiest areas to invest in, but it can also be among the most profitable if you know what you”re doing.
From roughly 1974 to 2004, the S&P 500 trended upward. In contrast, the CRB, or Commodity Research Bureau, trended down. However, many savvy investors continued to trade in commodities, with many doing very well. Why is this so?
When you trade commodities, as with any other type of speculation, there are no guarantees. Just as with anything else, you can either make or lose a lot of money, sometimes in a short period of time. It’’s not as commonly known that there are many ways to both reduce your risk of loss and to limit the amount you lose.
If you”re a commodities trader or are looking to become one, you know that two elements motivate you: speculation and hedging. Although speculation and hedging are not mutually exclusive and you can do both at the same time, speculation is primarily profit oriented. Hedging is more about protecting your profits or minimizing a potential loss and is therefore a defensive strategy.
The Greeks have long been extolled for their extensive contributions to establishing elementary mathematics. It was the modern Greeks, however, who created the tools that aid options traders to quantify risk and calculate prices. Among these tools, one that rises above the others are the quantities known as “The Greeks.” They are delta, theta, gamma and vega.
Options are contracts on an underlying trading instrument such as shares of stock, bonds, a commodity, a mortgage loan and many others. However, there are common features among all options. It does not matter if it is a share of stock or a mortgage loan; they all have certain things in common. Read this article to learn about Calls and Putts.
Off-floor trader Rick Redmont gained his first experience trading stocks as a college student during the bull market of 1961. “I had $10,000, which turned into $20,000. I followed the Chartcraft point and figure book-but it didn”t really matter what you bought.
After spending six years trading on the floor, first at the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange and then at the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Linda Bradford Raschke shifted gears and moved to an off-floor office in 1987. After trading her own money for several years, she moved into the money management side of the business in early 1993. Raschke, along with her partner Rick Genett, manage about $25 million.
Futures trader and author Grant Noble looks to the mass news media in order to garner signals of major market bottoms or tops. Only, he looks to the media with a contrarian perspective.
Stock trading has always been a popular way to make money for the many people that are interested in taking a bit of risk. Now that the Internet is available many people are taking their skills and trying their hand at stock trading online.
George Lane completed his 47th year of trading in December 1996 and is still going strong. After many years of trading in the grain pits in downtown Chicago, Lane has shifted to screen trading during his “retirement” in a small community about 80 miles south of Chicago.
Trader and consultant Cynthia Kase relies on a series of proprietary technical indicators that has developed for her trading signals. Kase makes her trading decisions strictly based on these technical indicators and doesn”t rely on fundamental analysis at all.
Trader Lee Gettess focuses on risk control as a major factor in determining his success in the commodity markets. However, it wasn”t always that way. Gettess received his introduction to the commodity futures markets via a telephone call from a broker.
Trader George Fontanills first began utilizing options in order to go “delta neutral” on his futures positions, which would allow him to “still sleep well at night.” Since he began using options in conjunction with his futures trading, Fontanills believes he has found a way to accelerate his profits while decreasing his risk.
Jake Bernstein, one of the futures industry’’s best-known traders, started trading “by accident” he told FWN. Bernstein was a psychologist who responded to an ad in the newspaper regarding “ag futures.” A broker started calling him and Bernstein opened an account.
Walter Bressert earned a college degree in economics, which taught him “economists don”t know much about the way the world works.” An active trader for many years, Bressert relies on cycles and oscillators in his intraday futures trading, in which he primarily focuses on the S&P 500 contract.
Off floor trader Tom Bierovic, trades according to a set of rules he has developed over the years, but uses his own discretion on top of these rules. Bierovic believes he was lucky because he was introduced to the futures business at a very young age. His father was a trader at the MidAmerica Exchange and Tom would plot daily and weekly bar charts of the agricultural contracts for his allowance money.
As a trader in the Eurodollar futures pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Angelo Reynolds cites mental toughness and courage as two of the necessary factors to successful pit trading. “I knew I always wanted to be involved in the markets,” Reynolds said.
Investing in the stock market can be like playing tennis. The professionals play an offensive game. And the amateurs play a defensive game. How can we protect our investments should the stock market fall?
Day-trading is a very serious business; if you don”t have all the right ingredients in place before you begin trading, you”re dead. One of the most important aspects of the day-trading business is your “team:”
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