Elia falsely told investors he had a long track record of day trading stocks and exchange traded funds to yield annual returns as high as 26 percent, and that his trading on behalf of investors was paying quarterly returns of up to 20 percent.
Remember that sound money management means reducing your position size proportionately when trading leveraged exchange-traded funds.
Another trend that he says concerned him: the central role high-frequency firms play in the trading of exchange-traded funds.
Trading volumes in gold exchange-traded funds, a favorite among individual investors, surged over the two-day swoon.
Avoid single stock risk by trading and investing in exchange-traded funds based on industrial metals and mining.
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In America, meanwhile, the all-electronic Archipelago handles trading in stocks, exchange-traded funds and options, and plans to add corporate bonds and futures to its platform.
The course of events was that on Wednesday Mr Adoboli disclosed to UBS that he had engaged in unauthorised trades, in his role as part of UBS's so-called Delta One trading team, which deals in exchange traded funds (or tradable investment funds whose proliferation has concerned regulators).
On the other hand, some of Bank Austria's returns have come from such volatile areas as investments in hedge funds and trading cash, foreign exchange and derivatives for the bank's own account.
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Nomura analysts listed a few signs that might signal the end of the current weakness of gold including the metal not being correlated with the euro, prices rising during Asian trading hours and inflows into exchange-traded gold funds.
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Finally, it will now have a platform on which to develop trading in fast-growing derivatives and exchange-traded funds.
We sifted through the performance figures of foreign-country exchange-traded funds with significant assets that have been trading for at least 15 years.
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Investors have piled into platinum, as seen by the rising net-long positions in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission data and record holdings in exchange-traded funds.
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One of the mostly hotly traded exchange traded funds, the iShares FTSE China Xinhua 25 (FXI) is trading at multiples of just 7.9x trailing earnings while the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets (EEM) ETF is trading nearly 10x earnings.
ISE's system eliminates the fees that a market-maker would charge and doesn't place size limits on trade blocks, making it appealing to the growing number of hedge funds and proprietary trading desks that use computer algorithms to send orders through an exchange.
For example, the FDIC has the authority to wind down unstable financial firms, banking regulators have a tighter grip on setting capital standards, the Securities and Exchange Commission will have greater oversight over hedge funds and private equity firms, and the SEC and Commodity Futures Trading Commission will coordinate regulation of derivatives.
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