However, one of the building blocks of long-term successful options trading is to limit your cash outlay as much as possible while still giving yourself a chance for profits.
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Not only does this limit active trading but it also results in a one-sided market.
The so-called Volcker Rule was adopted (which at least would limit proprietary trading by depository banks to no more than 3% of their Tier 1 capital).
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The report comes on the same day the Obama Administration will unveil new proposals to limit the trading activities of big banks as a way of reining in risk-taking and preventing another financial crisis.
Then sell losers to lock in the tax advantages and limit your other trading to rebalancing.
Although the newly proposed rules would not address CDS trading practices, they would limit naked short-selling in several important ways.
The world market place is quieter to start the new trading week, which did limit the upside for the safe-haven gold market.
The Hungarian forint, which moves in a band either side of a central rate against the euro, is trading within a whisker of its upper limit, even after a cut of three-quarters of a point on February 21st.
And it must come up with the final wording of the so-called Volcker Rule, which regulators hope will limit the kind of risky trading by banks that contributed to the financial crisis and forced taxpayers to bail out the institutions.
Both want a healthy world economy, a stable Asia, peace in the Middle East, open sea lanes, a limit to proliferation, an open trading system, and so on.
However, in recent years development has helped limit this and boost far more regular trading.
The market place has started the trading week with no U.S. debt limit agreement reached by U.S. lawmakers.
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The Dodd-Frank Act places emphasis on reducing the possibility of future bankruptcies and seeks to limit the exposure of large banks to risky trading activities.
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Because the SEC struck a compromise with the mutual fund industry to limit attention to the very real dangers personal trading by managers poses to clients.
Both Oxman and Gero noted that when gold prices do slip to the lower end of their trading range, buying has come into the market to limit further losses.
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One part of the new law, the Volcker rule, was designed to limit risk-taking in particular, trading by banks for their own profit rather than for customers, known as proprietary trading.
The CFTC also proposed to limit the ownership of clearing houses, exchanges and trading systems by banks and major swaps dealers to 20%, which the banks are disputing as they have economic interests in the controlling the derivatives trade.
China Vanke, the country's biggest real estate developer by market value, hit the daily up-limit of 10 percent on the Shenzhen bourse after announcing plans to shift trading of its foreign-currency shares to Hong Kong.
The US federal government has responded to the Chesapeake Bay challenge by imposing a limit on the amount of pollutants that can flow into the Bay and letting states set up credit-trading programs to promote the most efficient reductions possible.
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