Thus, one analyst suggests anybody wanting to take a longer-term spread trade in favor of platinum might consider tip-toeing into a position rather than racing full speed ahead.
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In order to have a corresponding ounce-to-ounce spread trade in the futures market, a trader who is looking for the spread to narrow would buy two 50-ounce platinum futures contracts and simultaneously sell one 100-ounce gold futures contract.
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Currensee get a cut of that, plus a few basis points on the spread of every trade.
The Black Death is thought to have originated in China and spread to Europe through trade.
Beyond the macroeconomic fall-out from war, there is one other big concern: that diplomatic tensions between America and Europe over Iraq could spread beyond war to trade.
You could, of course, place a limit order somewhere in the middle of the spread and hope that your trade is met by a speculator on the other side.
The marketmakers rarely allowed customers to trade inside the spread, even if one customer was willing to pay the same price that another customer wanted to sell his stock for.
At Liverpool, he said, they were called "shape" drills: 15- or 20-minute sequences where players are coached to spread the field and quickly trade positions, just as they are instructed to when they're chasing a late goal.
For instance, Pope notes only 14% was shaved off Portuguese bonds in the testing process even though two-year notes from Portugal have widened to trade at a spread of 242 basis points over the German equivalent security compared to 226 basis points last Friday, a 7% gain in the spread in just a week.
But Tuesday's trade delays, which spread to other networks and exchanges though less noticeably, have increased the anxiety as Reg.
Assuming this trade was a ratio spread, the trader might have sold 58, 000 October 4 puts, thus creating a two-to-one ratio with the purchased 29, 000 October 5 puts.
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The consequences of a pandemic spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria could also include shortages of food due to untreatable infections in livestock and, as leaders seek to slow the spread of pathogens, restrictions on trade in foodstuffs and even on travel and migration.
This "spread" is also assessed when investors trade foreign currencies through a brokerage firm.
Moreover, the benefits of trade tend to be more spread out than the losses.
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Just as in the past, high yield bonds trade at an interest rate spread over Treasury bonds, which are more liquid and less subject to default risk.
For investors who prefer to sacrifice some yield in exchange for greater safety, possibly with the intention of swapping back into speculative grade corporate bonds at a wider spread later on, the most straightforward trade is to switch to Triple-B corporates.
Either way--with a swap or a margined bond trade--you pocket the spread, unless and until the corporate bond gets into trouble, at which point you're sitting on a painful capital loss.
The most obvious way in which problems can spread from one emerging market to another is through trade.
For example, production of an iPhone is spread across several countries yet in U.S. trade statistics it counts as an import only from China.
Keeping that disclaimer in mind, it appears the call spread is looking for shares in News Corp. to trade substantially higher come expiration day in January 2013.
The execution of this trade would involve the purchase of the March 32 call and sell of March 33 call (buying a vertical spread) while simultaneously selling the March 33 call and purchasing the March 34 call ( selling a vertical spread) However, you put it in as one trade (a call butterfly) and then you can fill as one price on the whole trade.
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Trade policy is a key instrument to ensure the spread of green technology to developing countries while also promoting growth and jobs in Europe.
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Monday, before the vote, the so-called TED spread, or the gap between the rate at which banks will trade with each other and three-month Treasury bills had grown to 348 basis points from 200 basis points last week, which shows a continued lockup of the credit markets.
It took only a matter of months for the financial meltdown in 2008 to spread to the real economy, which prompted an overnight crash in international trade volumes, as production orders were terminated, shutting down operations throughout supply chains across the globe.
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According to data from Trade-Alert.com, one trader opened a bull call spread using the November 26 and 31 strikes.
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According to data from Trade-Alert.com, one trader opened a bull call spread using the January 2012 20 and 17.50 strikes.
The largest single trade on YHOO today, a one-by-two ratio call spread, suggests the price of the underlying may post limited gains during the first seven months of 2012.
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The investor may be employing the three-way spread to take finance an outright bearish view on the stock, or could be using the trade to hedge a long position in the underlying shares.
Unlike his counterparts in Syria, who keep fingers in as many pies as possible to spread the risk and distract the taxman, Mr Samha puts all his energy and earnings into a single trade.
Many ADRs are very liquid, others like those that trade over-the-counter on the pink sheets can be illiquid so the bid and asked spread are higher.
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