They might go the other way, handing a loss to an in-and-out trader.
On the floor of the American Stock Exchange it is widely believed that any trader cocky enough to attract media attention is destined to "blow out" -- trader lingo for going out of business.
Helping the trader out hugely here is a doubling in the critical value of options implied volatility.
Balvant, who remains chairman, started out as a small trader in specialty chemicals in 1954.
The cause: wrong bets on natural gas by Brian Hunter, a trader operating out of Calgary, Alberta.
Dickinson pleaded guilty to participating in a fraudulent business carried out by a sole trader and another count of not being authorised in relation to a regulated activity.
The yen's rise against the New Zealand dollar, about 7% over the last week, has pretty much wiped out any advantage a trader had in parking money in the Kiwi.
But when a trader sets out to systematically mislead his employer, as seems to have happened in this case, the best monitoring systems in the world won't pick up what happened.
The good news is that no BATS trader ended up out of pocket.
As a callow bond-trader, fresh out of college, he participated in one of the greatest of them all, in Japan in 1986, when the yield on the ten-year benchmark Japanese government bond fell to 2.5%, the discount rate at the time.
What our trader there is pointing out is the mechanism by which markets efficiently process this information.
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No trader would dare stay out of the market when faced with the loss of 40% of global supply.
His level of activity, while farly intense, was not intense enough to move him out of investor status and into trader status.
In naked short-selling, the locate rule and the delivery rule go out the window, since the trader doesn't borrow the shares to begin with.
In one instance a trader would regularly shout out to colleagues that he was trying to manipulate the rate to a particular level, to check whether they had any conflicting requests.
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And if anyone had listened to the conscientious number-cruncher in 2001 when she played despised Cassandra, voicing omens of potential financial doom, well, history could've turned out differently for the collapsed energy trader.
He started out at Goldman as a mortgage bond trader, working his way up to chief financial officer, and then president.
Despite his longer time horizon, Kennedy is still a trader, going in and out of stocks as many times as they move up and pull back.
Mark Leibovit, chief market strategist at VR Gold Trader.com, pointed out that a precious metal exchange-traded fund that he watches, ETFs Physical Swiss Gold shares (SGOL), put in a key reversal.
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Trader Joe's figured out that trying to give people everything is a lousy business model: It overwhelms customers, clutters stores and undermines the shopping experience, causing some customers to default to "no" since they can't make up their minds.
To construct a short strangle, the trader sells an equal number of out-of-the-money puts and calls with the same expiration.
This is a Fantasy and totally out of character for the hard driving former trader, who has honored us by his public service.
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He speaks quickly, his ideas flowing out in bursts like the commands of the currency trader he once was.
Bennett had taken over as CEO of Refco in 1998 after a two year stint as its chief financial officer, and he set out to build the firm into the leading independent futures trader through a string of acquisitions in the U.S. and abroad.
One was of achieving this was via "wash trades" - buying and selling from the trader simultaneously, so the trades cancel each other out, but the difference in price generates a profit for the broker.
In the video below, Pete Renzulli, a mentor with T3Live, lays out his four milestones, or checkpoints, that he says every trader should pass through before trying to take the next step.
If the trader is in fact rolling part of the original position out to the December contract, it seems the transition results in profits on the one hand, and a more bearish stance on NG on the other.
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As Bajrang Lal Goyal, a trader who joined the Rajdhani exchange 40 years ago, points out, India's winter crop is just days away from hitting the market.
Volume is one of the best tools that an investor or trader can use to tell whether money is moving into or out of a stock or ETF.
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