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Recently, he shifted some of the organization's gold bullion into an equivalent bet on gold using futures, a move that freed up cash that was plowed into stocks.
WSJ: Gold's Fall Stings Texas Universities' Endowment
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Dean Curnutt at Macro Risk Advisors figures that in early March the Credit Suisse fund had to trade the equivalent of 3, 300 VIX futures contracts daily, or about 4% of the entire day's volume.
WSJ: Chaos Over a Plunging Note
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The other dinosaur den is financial options--the equivalent of the right, for example, to buy Treasury bond futures at a certain strike price--where traders hang over the railings, screaming and waving frantically.
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According to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the American regulator for commodity futuresmarkets, the increase in short positions over September was equivalent to 470, 000 barrels of oil.
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