Changes in futures don't always accurately predict early market moves after the opening bell.
Leverage in futures markets allowed them to control a huge chunk of the available world supply.
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He said the current net-long position is roughly 43% of the total open interest in futures.
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Corzine became chief executive of MF Global, an international brokerage firm that specializes in futures, options and derivatives trading.
Changes in futures don't always accurately predict stock moves after the opening bell.
Meanwhile, events in two large oil-producing countries are feeding speculation in futures markets.
Countering the bearish view on gold in futures and ETF markets is the physical buying interest, several market watchers said.
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More than 60 organizations from both buy-side and sell-side firms involved in futures and OTC derivatives provided input to develop this document.
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Options and futures often carry higher commissions than equity trades and investors in futures will be required to maintain a minimum margin.
Singapore also leads Hong Kong in futures trading, is among the world's top five markets for derivatives and has traditionally been a strong commodities center.
Contrarily, I see weakness in futures markets for years to come.
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Tintle also manages risk in futures positions by using options, such as selling call options against a long position or selling puts against a short position.
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The index is 76% weighted to a long position in futures contracts on two-year Treasury yields and 24% weighted to a short position in 10-year Treasury yields.
Stocks trade on dozens of exchanges, automatic trading systems, dark pools and crossing networks these days, and trading in futures and options markets affects trading in the cash markets.
The fund invests in futures contracts associated with U.S. dollars, euros, Japanese yen, Canadian dollars, Swiss francs, British pounds, Australian dollars, New Zealand dollars, Norwegian kroner and Swedish kronor.
It turned out they were from the same hometown in Sichuan, and they had pooled cash and given it to her so she could come to Guangzhou and invest in futures.
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Almost all current investor activity is in futures markets.
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As a broker-dealer, MF Global also added liquidity to the system, adding another layer of systemic risk: on Monday, MF Global traders were barred from the CME Trading floor, substantially limiting liquidity in futures markets.
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And yes, that is what the World Development Movement really does say, that speculators betting on agricultural food commodities, in futures, options and the like, produces rising food prices, greater volatility of food prices and that these things then kill poor people.
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Ken Morrison, editor of the online newsletter, Morrison on the Markets, pointed out that the rally has come with a steady level of open interest in futures and no change in the net ownership of the SPDR Gold exchange-traded fund (GLD) since Dec. 22.
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According to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, speculators in both the disaggregated and legacy Commitments of Traders Reports significantly increased for the second week in a row their net-long positions in futures and options on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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Figures from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed that speculators in both the disaggregated and legacy Commitments of Traders reports cut the net-long positions in futures and options on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange and Nymex for the week ending Aug. 30.
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Figures from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed that speculators in both the disaggregated and legacy Commitments of Traders reports cut the net-long positions in futures and options for gold on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange for the week ending Oct. 18.
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Figures from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed that speculators in both the disaggregated and legacy Commitments of Traders reports additions in the net-long positions in futures and options on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange and Nymex for the week ending Oct. 2.
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When physical demand can not be met in the primary futures markets, even as there are massive naked shorts in the futures markets, I believe the probability that a major derivatives failure in the gold market is afoot or in the process of transpiring.
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Since that day, regulators from both the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have been trying to piece together how a flood of early afternoon selling in stock futures and in stocks themselves led to a momentary 998-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average.
The pit still drives screen volume--20% of electronic trades in financial futures originate in the pits.
During the incredible rally in gold futures and in the SPDR Gold Trust ( GLD), there have been a number of flag formations.
In 1958 onion growers, concerned about manipulations in their futures market, convinced then Michigan Congressman Gerald Ford to sponsor a law banning futures trading in onions.
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