Options Trading in Extremely Volatile Markets

The recent stock market crisis (2008) not only rocked the financial system and the world economy but also the pockets of countless options traders all over the world. Options traders who used to profit in the years prior to this market crisis broke their bank as none of their options strategies seem to work in [...]

Shares, dollar hammered as markets reel

Shares, dollar hammered as markets reel
International markets have gone into another tailspin, with major indices in New York shedding as much as 4 per cent, the Australian dollar sharply lower yet again and the local sharemarket futures signalling an abysmal trading day ahead.
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Market depth on just one side in futures markets?

If I have just ask order size and no bid roders – does it mean that i can end up with the asset – without being able to sell it?
for instance:
futures price:
bid: 1000
ask: 1002
bid size: 0
ask size: 1
thanks

Which is the best way to become a millionaire on the stock/forex markets; speculating or investing?

Just curious as to which option is the best option if you want to become a millionaire on the stock/forex markets out of speculating or investing? Also, which is the best recommended and what are the advantages/disadvantages to each of them?

UK bond markets to open 1am after election

UK bond markets to open 1am after election
A note from the New York Stock Exchange London International Financial Futures and options Exchange has revealed that markets for three-month short Sterling futures, short, medium and long gilt futures and also FTSE 100 index futures contracts will be available for trading at 1:00am GMT on May 7, [...]

Public Meeting to Examine Futures and Options Trading in the Metals Markets 3/25/2010 – Part IV

CFTC to holds a Public Meeting to Examine Futures and Options Trading in the Metals Markets Washington, DC United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Gary Gensler held a public meeting on March 25, 2010, to examine the trading of futures and options in the precious and base metals markets. The meeting was open [...]

A brief overview of futures markets and investing

Traders who are familiar with equities are familiar with just one type of investment opportunity. When you buy stock, you are buying a share in a company; in a sense, you have equity in that company. Futures are another type of investment but they are not equities.
Futures are an investment type called “derivative contracts”. The [...]

How not to Lose your Shirt When Trading in the Futures Markets

There is an alarming number of new, and uneducated, commodity traders losing just about everything they own. Why? There are a number of reasons why a new futures trader stands back, scratches his/her head and wonders why their trading account went from thousands of dollars to almost nothing over night.
What happened?

There are actually a number [...]

Why choose the Watts Online Trading System to successfully trade the E-Minis, Futures Markets and also for Forex Currency Trading

What is different about the Watts Online Trading System, compared to the tons of other forex currency trading systems sold out there for the E-Minis and Futures Markets to the day trader, is the price of the system itself. In the business of day trading, it is often discovered that one gets a lot more [...]

How do the Futures Markets Actually Function

People often consider futures markets very complex entities, when in fact they are fairly simple in principle.  I will concede the technology required to operate an exchange is very complicated but the actual trading system is standardized and easy to understand.
A brief history of future exchanges might be in order, and they are far older [...]

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