The fund could invest in everything: municipal bonds, equities, preferred stocks, futures, options and options on futures.
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She also trades options on futures and speaks daily with a broker at Lind-Waldock to discuss strategies.
Options on futures are an alternative to buying a futures contract outright.
Its 6, 739 members own or lease seats that give them the right to trade futures contracts and options on futures contracts ( Click here or definitions).
Its 6, 739 members own or lease seats that give them the right to trade futures contracts and options on futures contracts (for definitions, see box, p. 68).
If that large fund trader was the one that purchased the put options on gold futures the day before, or was involved with the firm that did, then it lends credibility to those market watchers who reckon gold can be and has been manipulated.
More sophisticated investors can also opt to trade options and futures on the VIX index itself.
There were rumors in the market that on Tuesday a large number of put options were purchased on gold futures.
The number of open positions in the futures market had surged as many traders went long, or bought on the hope of higher prices, said Kevin Grady, president of Phoenix Futures and Options on the Comex floor.
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Money managers tracked by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission this month cut their bullish bets on gold futures and options to the lowest level in more than four years.
There is thus little threat to Kansas City's main product, futures and options on hard red winter wheat.
This involves buying and selling futures or options on shares, bonds or currencies.
The data covers precious and base metals futures and options on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange and the Nymex.
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For an index to be a success, it has to be widely accepted and liquid, so that fund managers can trade futures and options on it.
The market for these products is growing rapidly, both on futures and options exchanges and in private sales, which tend to be more complex and more lucrative.
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 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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Some have moved from there into trading options, or into trading futures on the likes of CME Group.
The recent drop in metals prices sent speculators scurrying from bullish gold and silver futures and options traded on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, according to U.S. government data.
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Meanwhile, traders took notice of recent news reports that famous fund managers John Paulson and George Soros upped their gold holdings during the second quarter, said Kevin Grady, owner of Phoenix Futures and Options, on the Comex floor.
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After significantly building up their net-long positions in gold futures and options contracts on Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange in the past three weeks, speculators completely eliminated those recently established long positions in the latest count of speculative activity from Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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The data reflects positioning as of April 16 for futures and options contracts traded on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange and on the Nymex.
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And yet, within CBOT's own pits, trading in ag futures and options still hangs on--one of two such areas--amounting to 16% of the total volume on the exchange.
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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After recently launching a dark options trading platform, Instinet is setting its sights on futures.
Last week, UK Finance Minister George Osborne said he opposed a Tobin-style tax on derivatives such as forex contracts, options and futures, unless they were applied globally.
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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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Energy futures and options volume averaged 257, 000 contracts on the Nymex in the second quarter, compared with 537, 000 in the same period last year.
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