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i mean for commodities futures?
i have seen lot of teenagers or young adults working on commodities trading pits with different colors of jackets on tv. i know that different colors of jackets represent different positions. can anybody tell me how those kids can get jobs on the floor? and what they do? and what those colors of jackets represent?
thank you
information will be appreciated
…and you took the politics, commodity trading and speculation out of it?
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Former President Clinton is on the campaign trail claiming he has nothing to do with the current economic crisis. However, the facts are these:
When President Clinton was president his terms was characterized by economic prosperity and financial deregulation, which in many ways set the stage for the excesses of recent years. Among his biggest strokes of free-wheeling capitalism was the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which repealed the Glass-Steagall Act, a cornerstone of Depression-era regulation. The repeal enabled commercial lenders such as Citigroup, which was in 1999 then the largest U.S. bank by assets, to underwrite and trade instruments such as mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations and establish so-called structured investment vehicles, or SIVs, that bought those securities. It is therefore seen that the repeal of this act is directly responsible for the Global financial crisis.
That was not enough for former President Cliinton. He also signed the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which exempted credit-default swaps from regulation. The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 has received criticism for the so-called “Enron loophole,” which exempts most over-the-counter energy trades and trading on electronic energy commodity markets. This was one of the big reasons for the collapse of Enron.
Not convinnced yet? In 1995 Clinton loosened housing rules by rewriting the Community Reinvestment Act, which put added pressure on banks to lend in low-income neighborhoods. All these rules changes played a role in creating a permissive lending environment. This in turn led to more loans being given to people who really could not afford them, leading to defaults today.
After all of this, do you believe our former president when he says to the media, “I am not a fault for any of this financial mess? Do you believe if my economic team was in place that any of this would have happened?”
My answer is yes I do – after reading about all the things he did in great detail, I put part of the blame squarely on his broad shoulders. To deny he had nothing to do with it seems like he is trying to rewrite history. What do you think?
Hmm. The surplus has nothing to do with the current situation. How does that figure into this quesstion?
True, anything can be overridden – but how does that absolve Clinton for pushing these ideas in the first place?
Although Clinton is not formerly campaigning, he is making repeated statements (three in the last two days) stating he has NOTHING to do with the economic downturn. If this is not campaigning for his reputation history, what is it then? Just random statements?
There are commodity futures and option traders who make multi-millions every year. Some have been known to earn several hundred million a year. They consistently make a great living, to say the least. And there are traders who consistently lose. Commodity trading is a big arena, just like the stock market.
I used to wonder why the CFTC didn’t come down hard on commodity firms and brokers who consistently lost money for clients. I thought that if it was any other kind of business, wouldn’t the consumer protection or some government authority shut them down?
Then it dawned on me. This is a zero sum game! It’s actually a negative sum game when commissions and so called “exchange, transaction, etc.” fees are added in. For every commodity trader long there is someone short. For every winning uptick for one trader, there is a losing uptick for someone else.
So this means that half of the money must be lost by somebody if half are winners. Or 95% of the money is lost by commodity traders who give it to 5% of the prosperous others. With a zero sum game, there MUST be many losers, and some big losers if there are big winners. If the CFTC did an audit of a commodity brokerage firm, they could well EXPECT to come in and find brokers with customer accounts that are doing poorly. Brokerage commissions and profits won by the best traders must come from somewhere.
This is normal and the way the futures markets (and stock markets to some degree) have worked for over a century. As long as everything was done legally and ethically, there is no problem with customers losing. There is always a winner and loser in commodities. The same with Las Vegas. Vegas is also a negative sum game, given the house odds. The casino house is equivalent to the best commodity traders. (and brokerage houses, of course)
Interestingly enough, theoretically, an exception is the stock market. You could have 100% winning traders if everyone were long and all the stocks kept going up. Even the commissions could be covered. But this is never the case in the real world. There is probably no difference in losing statistics for stock or commodity speculators. It’s a strange arena, this trading. You simply must remember that it is YOU against the competition. And there are sharp traders out there. Pure capitalism. You must make it as difficult as possible for them to take your commodity account money away.
Bottom line: When your commodity trading method’s accuracy is low by design, you MUST let your profits run bigger than losses and limit your losses in order to be profitable to survive over the long haul. You should also never risk more than 5% to 7.5% on any one trade. When trading accuracy is high by design, you can then let the profit to loss ratio get closer to 1:1, take quicker profits and slower losses and risk up to 10% a trade. Remember that your goal is eventually to risk 5% or less a trade, as many professionals do.
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There is substantial risk of loss trading futures and options and may not be suitable for all types of investors. Only risk capital should be used.
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Hello! I’m looking for website where I can trade futures and commodities on-line, in Japan.
Thanks,
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and don’t forget commodities trading!
Brian R. that is rediculous, you cant pass that kind of stuff for food. They did test lab rats don’t even eat the GMO food unless they’re starved. I’ll sooner pour tar down my nostrils than eat anything that came from walmart.
I want to start trading stocks, options, commodities, futures – does anyone know of any good platform for that? Please help.
