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Seen that? - Up march Option Expiration

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 25, 2009

...his Week...The top in the Major indexes that started last week has been side tracked by derivatives traders. The down trend will resume next week. For the Traders out there that use R.N. [...] Read M...

Bankers expect bonus pay records

in Sox First, on November 2, 2009

...nts, the gravy train continues with the latest Bloomberg poll finding that almost three in five traders, analysts and fund managers believe their 2009 bonuses will either increase or won’t change....

logiENERGY launches Peak Oil Fund

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 16, 2009

...eloped by our deep, complex team of expert geophysicists, mathematicians, oil professionals and oil traders have been able to predict and identify the fluctuations of oil prices and indicate when we e...

The financial meltdown and tell-tale emails

in Sox First, on September 15, 2009

...g these damning emails were being fired off by so many in Wall Street. The implication: Wall Street traders knew they were selling junk but were still intent on ripping off the public. Expect more law...

Double dip recession looming

in Sox First, on August 24, 2009

... now rising faster than economic fundamentals warrant. That's being driven largely by commodity traders cashing in on the lift in markets and making big bucks with their trades. Get ready for a l...

Dirty oil

in Sox First, on August 22, 2009

...her recession in 2010. The only reason oil is rising is because of speculation by commodity trader traders, according to this report . Part of the problem is we don't know how much speculation ...

Google's Android To Invade Homes

in Wangtam, on 2009-07-26

...d After Apple Complains • Stock Traders Find Speed Pays, in Milliseconds • 美股评论:亚马逊的新鞋子 • Boxcar - Push for Twitter • TwitPaint - Paint graffiti on Twitter • New technology supercharges deba...

Goldman Sachs riding high

in Sox First, on July 13, 2009

...ccording to the New York Times, the key has been its stomach for risks. The NYT reports: "Traders said Goldman capitalized on the tumult in the credit markets to reap a fortune trading bonds...

Google数据中心探秘

in Wangtam, on 2009-04-14

... Flakwolf • On Schedule - Online Scheduling Software • AV女优苍井空否认来广州 大骂中国媒体是混蛋 ...

Novices Given $1 Million to Start a Hedge Fund on TV

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 23, 2009

... Avanta is making its UK television debut with Million Dollar Traders on BBC2. Aired for 3 weeks in January, the series will play out at Avanta's Austin Friars business centre in London. T...

Madoff and SEC neglect

in Sox First, on December 13, 2008

... large part by the sale of the calls, limit the portfolio's downside.' "Among options traders, that's known as the 'split-strike conversion' strategy. In layman's terms, ...

Hudson Jewelry Collection

in The Jewelry Weblog, on December 8, 2008

...lry made by The Hudson Collection and designer Sarah Sheridan . The company was founded by diamond traders who settled in New York, so not too surprisingly the collection uses a lot of exquisite dia...

The crash and deregulation

in Sox First, on October 18, 2008

...ation that came along became the object of speculation that was fuelled by cheap money. Bankers and traders were always one step ahead of the regulators. That is a lesson the latter will have to learn...

Vodia Expands Into Frontier Markets

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 29, 2008

... As part of the rebranding, the company are launching a monthly newsletter for portfolio managers, traders and others looking for briefings on prime brokerage, securities finance and custody but who ...

More websites

in Biz Plan Hacks, on September 17, 2008

...checking accounts, invoicing tools, online payment processing, websites and blogs, articles, stock traders, plus financial calculators. I have had personal experience with many of the provided links...

Volatility rules

in Sox First, on September 14, 2008

... get used to it. Volatility is significantly greater in down markets than boom markets. The reason? Traders, like gamblers, chase losses. If they've lost lots of money, it's tempting to make b...

Weekend News Update

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on August 25, 2008

...g of its proprietary ECN system for the Forex market. The system will be ideal, Avalon says, for traders seeking to execute large orders of a billion or more across many banks and hedge funds simul...

Risk managers come clean

in Sox First, on August 11, 2008

...e risk analysis and assessment. However, this separation hurt our relationship with the bankers and traders we were supposed to monitor. "In their eyes, we were not earning money for the bank. W...

The oil squeeze

in Sox First, on May 29, 2008

...ina and India, the falling value of the dollar, the impact of commodity price speculation by energy traders and a whole constellation of factors exerting steady downward pressure on supply. Those incl...

Zeroing in on BAE

in Sox First, on May 22, 2008

...hat they are on their side." Earlier this month, I did a blog entry looking at how the arms traders was pledging to become more ethical. But clearly, the DOJ will not let it to pretend that th...

Yuan Under Seven: A Milestone?

in China Venture News, on April 15, 2008

You could have easily missed it. If it weren't for the credit crunch and Bear Stearns going under and all the US election hooplah in the news and the screech of the wheels on the US economy grinding to a halt, you probably would have heard more about it. The Chinese yuan renminbi hit a milestone...

Infiniti FX35

in Wangtam, on 2008-03-25

- Infiniti FX35 - Adobe 发布Flash Media Rights Management Server - 李万寿:VC的价值在于资金背后的智慧 - MacBook Air USB hacks - Howto: Install Safari on Ubuntu with Flash! (Hulu, Youtube Works!) - Custom-Made Acrylic Turntables Make Me Want to Trade in My SL-1210s - Dell Latitude E4000 to chase Air, X...

Book Review: The Biography of a Dollar by Craig Karmin

in The Personal Finance Weblog, on March 18, 2008

...this while being very entertaining. Karmin takes you inside FX Concepts, one of the largest money-traders in the world, to understand the big bets CEO John Taylor, Jr. makes for and against the doll...

Time Capsule 开箱照

in Wangtam, on 2008-03-06

- Time Capsule 开箱照 - Apple 新专利"转轴处接口" - Video: 99 words for boobs - 财富评出 2008 年美国十大最受尊敬公司 Apple第一 - Demand Media Buys Pluck for $75 million Demand Media, a big buyer and operator of Internet domain name companies, completed negotiations to acquire Austin based Pluck last night...

Financialization of America

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on February 28, 2008

...al and political role in a national economy. For example, energy prices. Last summer, commodities traders bid up the price of oil to $78 per barrel last summer on fears of more unrest in the Middle ...

Société Générale fallout: who's next?

in Sox First, on February 19, 2008

...S&P said: "While SocGen's loss was caused by the fraudulent behavior of one of its traders, we consider that significant deficiencies in the bank's risk management framework made poss...

The brain: hard-wired for risky trades

in Sox First, on February 7, 2008

...o a scapegoat and that bank knew and approved of his unauthorised bets and that other traders had engaged in similar practices. His comments go to the heart of the issue of why these sorts of mel...

Société Générale's accidental rogue traders

in Sox First, on February 1, 2008

...ll hasn't been fired, reports The Wall Street Journal . Trouble is sooner or later, these traders do get caught out. So what motivates them? What drives them to act as if they are omnipotent and...

Société Générale - more blowouts ahead

in Sox First, on January 30, 2008

...keep happening, says Money Morning's investment director Keith Fitz-Gerald . "Clever traders will always find ways to game the system and their supervisors will unwittingly encourage this b...

Internet Trading and Investing 2.0

in TJ's Weblog, on January 28, 2008

One of the big breakthroughs of the Internet in the last 15 years has been financial tools. Information distributed with the speed of light that can be translated into instant profits - the internet is the best tool ever for investors looking for a quick trade or trying to dive into first hand r...

Renminbi Rising: Will It Stop US Criticism?

in China Venture News, on January 8, 2008

After several years of resisting outside demands to allow the yuan renminbi to appreciate in value against other currencies (especially the U.S. dollar), it looks as if China has decided to allow just that - for its own internal reasons instead of external pressure. Inflation in China seems to ...

Subprime panic sets in

in Sox First, on November 23, 2007

...uld slow to a range of 1.8% to 2.5% next year, down from growth around 2.45% in 2007. The question traders in markets around the world are asking now is whether the Fed was being optimistic....

Virtual theft, real world law

in Sox First, on November 21, 2007

...ets for physical goods, markets for financial assets are markets in rights. In stock markets traders buy and sell rights to share in the profits of entities which exist as a matter of law, but ...

Discovering the Cape Verde Islands

in Hidden Travel Gems, on November 15, 2007

... when it was colonized by Portuguese and used first as a strategic port for naval vessels and slave traders. It wasn't until the 1970 that Cape Verde gained independence. Still relatively unknown ...

Russia May Give Green Light to Hedge Funds

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 12, 2007

...hedge funds could also be seen as an alternative to investment in futures and options. "Market traders who prefer hedge funds will be able to invest at home, improving the country's competiti...

Strong Dollar Good, Weak Dollar Bad?

in The Personal Finance Weblog, on November 6, 2007

...what the exchange rate between currencies will be. There is a foreign exchange market (forex) where traders buy and sell currency in the same way stocks are bought and sold. So, a currency's stren...

Hedging and Communism?

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 23, 2007

...derivatives by investment banks, hedge funds, and other market participants, reaps huge profits for traders while depriving the real economy of productive investment and job creation. " Rest of ...

Pictomio: free photo software for fast 3D graphics cards

in Wangtam, on 2007-10-19

- Pictomio: free photo software for fast 3D graphics cards - Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Web Clip Widgets - Web 2.0 Invites for October 16th, 2007 - Web 2.0 Marketplace Listings for October 16th, 2007 - MySpace and Sony BMG in Music Video Licensing Deal - Scripps to Spin Off Interactive Unit...

Chief carbon officers

in Sox First, on October 18, 2007

...rld's fastest growing market which is why the banks are getting into it big time. And because traders with experience are scarce, we will see leading investment banks poaching staff from oil com...

Bear Stearns and China Citic

in Sox First, on October 17, 2007

...e interesting question for me is about the enormous potential this sort of deal offered for insider traders. Consider this: most big companies in China, including Citic, are all controlled by the Gove...

Klein anfangen und groß rauskommen - das Erfolgssystem des Schildkröten-Traders Curtis Faith

in Das Börsen Weblog, on 08.10.07

curtis Faith war ein sehr erfolgreicher Händler an den Terminmärkten in Chicago. Er kam mit 19 in den Job, weil er an einem Programm von zwei anderen sehr erfolgreichen Händlern teilnahm. Faith war so etwas wie ein Naturtalent, das seine Emotionen beim Handeln sehr gut ausschalten kann. Ü...

Alternatives to Microsoft Office

in Wangtam, on 2007-10-01

- Alternatives to Microsoft Office - CCleaner 2.01.507 - Java SE Development Kit (JDK) for Windows 7 Build b21 - Corporate America Continues to Block Facebook More companies are joining the bandwagon and blocking access to social networking sites. A web security firm called ScanSafe repor...

Interview with Thomas Homer-Dixon

in Sox First, on September 8, 2007

...growth is regarded as sacrosanct. SOX FIRST: There is a fascinating trend of salaries of bankers, traders and CEOs racing way ahead of the rest of the population. You talk about the growing gap betw...

Bonus pay and the Rolls Royce waiting list

in Sox First, on August 28, 2007

...this year, I talked about how the money sloshing into London has created a new class of bankers and traders: the haves and the have-yachts . But US bankers and traders haven't exactly been on St...

Playing the angel

in Audeamus - How dare we..., on August 16, 2007

...nd you know what press releases do, right? They create hype, and hype creates profit by encouraging traders to buy the company's stock. In the case of Pre-Paid legal, their stock price went from ...

Carbon Hedge Fund Seminar

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on July 4, 2007

... Greenhouse Gas Initiatives make this a timely event. The seminar will bring benefits to planners, traders, cleantech venture capitalists, hedge fund managers, project developers, lawyers, and govern...

A Golden Age for Insider Trading

in Sox First, on June 21, 2007

... venues for trading on it. The size and complexity of private-equity deals makes it a wonder when traders don't catch word of a deal before it is announced ... While the Securities and Exchange ...

Carbon Market Developments

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 18, 2007

...ll drive new investment in cleaner technology. The seminar will bring benefits to planners , traders, venture capital and hedge fund managers, lawyers and government officials....

Search Engine For Hedge Funds

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 14, 2007

...selected by hedge fund experts. The search engine is designed to return highly relevant results for traders and investors who need timely and targeted access to rankings, news and research. More here...

Trading Action, Live!

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 11, 2007

... MoneyShow.com, the largest multimedia investment education destination for investors, traders, and financial advisors announced that it will provide free Webcast access at Moneyshow of the...

The politics of pay

in Sox First, on May 31, 2007

... ranked fourth in the world and the amount of money sloshing around for London bankers, brokers and traders has been nothing short of staggering, something I examined here when I looked at the issue...

Insider trading: is it back?

in Sox First, on May 7, 2007

... as credit default swaps, are providing new more opportunities and new methods for would-be insider traders. Combine that with new communications technologies and global markets, and you have a lethal...

Dawn of Magic IGN UK Review

in PCGamers Blog, on April 28, 2007

... On first impressions, the world around you seems vibrant and full of life. Locales teem with NPCs, traders and a wealth of impressively varied and increasingly tough enemies to battle. As you wander ...

Yipes Hedge Fund Platform

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 12, 2007

...measuring tools give financial institutions greater visibility into network performance and speeds. Traders are able to gain a very granular view of performance that enables them to determine the fast...

The haves and the have yachts

in Sox First, on March 9, 2007

...nd have yachts" are growing, reports MSNBC via the Washington Post. Rich London bankers and traders who think nothing of spending tens of thousands on a night out, or on tailors, jewelers and ...

Hedge Funds And Oil Predictions

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on February 28, 2007

...search, Frederic Lasserre, said $64.15 is an "obvious short-term target," based on charts traders use to identify peaks in prices. Futures will extend their 23 percent rally since reaching a...

Lefsetz on Live Music

in Digital Music - The Future, on February 19, 2007

A key part of the digital music industry story the past decade has been the labels themselves. Unfortunately the story isn't changing. Labels continue act like dinosaurs. They are making progress, but a glacial rate. Meanwhile new technologies and businesses are innovating, and rising and fa...

Lefsetz on Live Music

in P2P File Sharing, on February 19, 2007

A key part of the digital music industry story the past decade has been the labels themselves. Unfortunately the story isn't changing. Labels continue act like dinosaurs. They are making progress, but a glacial rate. Meanwhile new technologies and businesses are innovating, and rising and fa...

Labels have only themselves to blame

in P2P File Sharing, on February 9, 2007

...ey became obsessed with big name signings, mergers and down-sizing: the only indicators that market traders understand. This bore no relationship to the music market itself. The big name signing at th...

Labels have only themselves to blame

in Digital Music - The Future, on February 9, 2007

...ey became obsessed with big name signings, mergers and down-sizing: the only indicators that market traders understand. This bore no relationship to the music market itself. The big name signing at th...

Bad week for Morgan Stanley

in Sox First, on February 8, 2007

...g, reports InvestmentNews . Morgan Stanley's problems didn't end there. One of its former traders John Steigerwald was censured and barred by a New York Stock Exchange hearing panel for inap...

Hedge Funds and Artificial Intelligence

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 24, 2007

...housands of scenarios at once. The Apama Algorithmic Trading Platform has made it possible for day traders to build complicated trading algorithms almost as easily as they drag an icon across a digit...

Hedge Fund Technology

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 8, 2007

...ture of algorithmic trading this March in London. And its not for mathematicians, its for high risk traders. I guess we'll see if patterns and cycles can predict a reliable trading platform. Whe...

SEC's Christmas gift to Wall Street

in Sox First, on December 28, 2006

... record Christmas bonuses to Wall Street bosses and excessive lifestyles and spending habits of traders and bankers. Last Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a new rule on the ...

Nick Leeson blames the banks

in Sox First, on December 27, 2006

...ings' balance sheet. All due to his unauthorized derivatives speculation. Now when experienced traders place bad bets, they always cut their losses and get out. Not Leeson. He managed to avert su...

Excess all areas on Wall Street

in Sox First, on December 26, 2006

...own. As Oscar Wilde once said, nothing succeeds like excess, and Wall Street's top bankers and traders would agree. Anderson writes: "Miller Motorcars, in Greenwich, Conn., is fielding more...

Hedge funds, politicians and insider trading

in Sox First, on December 9, 2006

...irtually all insider trading cases hinge on circumstantial evidence. It is quite common for insider traders to come up with alternative rationales for their trading-rationales that the staff must refu...

Traders cash in on the Enron mystique

in Sox First, on November 22, 2006

... Ken Lay's dead and his lieutenants are either in the slammer or heading there, but Enron's traders are doing very well, thank you very much. It seems that the second biggest bankruptcy in US ...

Systemic risks turn hedge funds into lemons

in Sox First, on October 15, 2006

With the troubled hedge fund Amaranth now cutting 60 per cent of its workforce after blowing $6 billion on bad bets in the natural gas market, the pressure is mounting for hedge funds to come under more regulation. Enter John Plender from the Financial Times with his piece arguing th...

Die drei größten Hotels der Welt entstehen in Las Vegas

in Das Reise-Weblog, on 06.10.06

...te Arabische Emirate 1.000 Zimmer, geplante Eröffnung: 15. März 2007 10. Traders Hotel, Macau 1.000 Zimmer, geplante Eröffnung: 01. Januar 2008 ...