The futures and options markets for rice are, compared to wheat and maize, woefully undeveloped.
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The futures and options markets for rice are tiny as compared to maize or wheat.
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Prescient trading in the options markets on the eve of market-moving announcements has been common for years.
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Pope was also negative on BP because the bearish bets on BP stock in options markets were rising.
He is a volatility arbitrage specialist who trades volatility as an asset class in an effort to take advantage of inefficiencies in the options markets.
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The system, called Liquidity Builder, will survey several cash equity and options markets and predict the availability of a Pipeline block trade to match that.
But there are no organised futures or options markets for property.
One key is that JVA itself is more adept at making speculative plays in the options markets than in the operational side of a coffee wholesaling business.
More disconcerting was that much of the trading activity I wrote about occurred after a new regulatory agency was formed to review trading in the options markets.
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Since the CFTC oversees the entire commodity futures and options markets in the United States, an understanding of all aspects of these markets, not just forex, is necessary.
In the options markets Tuesday, where traders predicted the demise of Bear Stearns in March, more than 300, 000 options traded in Lehman, heavily favoring bets on a fall in the stock.
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.
When Mr. Bernanke made his speech, price movements in options markets suggested investors thought there was near 40% probability of deflation in the coming year, according to Barclays Capital calculations.
Traditional economists have argued that proper use of the options markets helps producers and buyers alike, but many on the ground argue that the spikes and dips far exceed actual supply fluctuations.
That was a lesson learned after the crash of 1987, when the stock, futures, and options markets failed to coordinate markets that are now public companies, NYSE Euronext, CME Group, and the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
To me, it appears that the best case that the Fed can muster for QE2 is that options markets suggest that investors cut their expectations of the odds of deflation from 40% before QE2 to 10% now.
Once heavy bets on a decline in the company's stock started appearing in the options markets early in its last week, there was enough momentum for those rumors to cause real concern among lenders and customers with cash balances at the brokerage.
Yet even with the overwhelming amount of suspicious trades, the SEC and options-markets regulators don't generally disclose investigations or even provide figures for how many they pursue.
While FINRA has historically played a key role in combating insider trading, the SEC recently unveiled plans to develop a centralized database that would store information on every single trade order, execution, and cancellation across across numerous equity and options trading markets.
The first was the rising popularity of card-based tender options in international markets.
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And a new leadership skill is how you maximize those options, which markets you play to, which narrow innovations you address, who you regard as your competition.
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Indeed, it is possible to find entirely respectable economists (Robert Shiller for example) arguing that it was the lack of options and futures markets in housing that failed to prick the US housing bubble before it blew.
The markets that do the sort of high volume, low margin trades that would be affected by an FTT are the foreign exchange (FX), futures, options and stock markets (with special reference to high frequency trading of the often demonised computer algorithm type).
Without getting into the nuts and bolts of why each carrier can (and often does) offer up a different set of HD options across different markets, you can rest assured that what one cable company offers in your town is probably vastly different than what's offered by the same carrier 2, 000 miles away.
My coverage ranges from the municipal and corporate bond markets to options trading in the stock market.
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Egged on by options traders, equity markets might then become more volatile still.
We recently highlighted this new kid on the China ETF block and believe it will be one of the better options when the emerging markets theme is restored.
Morales sees multiples reasons for the slim broadband wireless options in many emerging markets, including PTT monopolies in some countries, and the need for infrastructure upgrades in others.
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Significantly, the vast expansion in markets for options, futures and derivatives occurred mostly after 1971, with the onset of floating exchange rates, wildly-gyrating interest rates, and swings in commodity prices.
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