Tag Archives: markets

Some Numbers on Stock Market Earnings Reactions

I’m reading a book on trading based on company earnings announcements at the moment. I’ll post a …

Video Review: Wall Street – Money Never Sleeps

Over the weekend I finally got around to watching Wall Street – Money Never Sleeps, the sequel to …

The Cost of Trading

Last week I wrote a post for the Currensee blog addressing a recent SmartMoney article attacking forex …

Video Interviews from the Futures & Forex Expo

While I was at the Futures & Forex Expo last month out in Vegas I did a …

What about the Forex Market?

Frequent emailer Rod is back with another worthwhile question. Hi John, I know you are a position …

Penny Stocks vs. Forex Trading

Tim Sykes seems to be someone people either love or hate. He is upfront and straightforward with his opinions, which …

The Dominant Players in Forex

I see the question all the time about where prices come from in the forex market and …

Looking at Volatility Across Markets

The other day I commented on a post on a personal finance blog. The article was an …

Where does forex leverage come from?

A question was posted on BabyPips which occurred to me as being something readers here might wonder …

Picking the Right Market to Trade

Here’s a question I know a lot of new traders have – or at least they should …

What is the front futures contract?

The other day I got a question about futures contracts from a member of my mailing list on …

Negative T-Bill rates?

Near zero and negative Treasury Bill (T-Bill) rates have been all the talk this week. Here’s a …

Please, please stop saying “the forex”!

I need to let loose a rant here – and offer some advice. Can someone please tell …

Forex is a scam!

Forex is a scam! I studied and practiced for quite awhile and as soon as I went …

Understanding Open Interest in Futures and Options Trading

One of the less well understood statistics in the basic daily trading data set is open interest. …

How Can Interest Rates Go Below Inflation?

Today’s question focuses on interest rates and the fixed income market. I do not understand how interest …

What’s Your Opinion of Options Trading?

A reader named Bill asked the following question about options trading by way of leaving a comment the other …

Commodities Trading: Is it Worth Exploring?

Commodities have been a huge talking point in the market for a while now, and even more …

Did You Freak?

Be honest. Were you freaking out today? For a little while there it was getting kind of …

What is Commercial Paper?

Commercial Paper (CP) is something which has been in the news for the last month as the …

LIBOR? What’s that?

If you’ve been paying much attention to the markets of late you probably heard something about LIBOR …

An example of what can really drive the markets

Yesterday was a pretty interesting day in the markets. And I do mean “markets”. Most people will …

The implications of index trading

Something came up recently in one of the forums I visit from time to time. It had …

How did you pick your market?

There’s a good chance that most people reading this post either are or have been stock traders. …

Knowing the high volume forex trading timeframes

An extremely frequent question I see in the forex discussion boards and that I get in my conversations …

Easy stock option trading

Several years ago I stopped trading stocks all together. After more than a decade in the market …

Trade Commodities without Trading Futures

In 2006 we saw the advent of currency exchange traded funds (ETFs). They are instruments traded like …

Trading forex via the stock market

Thinking about trading forex, but not sure you want to the leverage spot forex trading or trading …

Predicting Fed Rate Policy with Fed Funds Futures

In a previous post I talked about the fixed income market (interest rates) and provided a link to …

Understanding the Fixed Income (Interest Rate) Market

One of the observations I’ve made in communicating with traders and learning of the markets they are …

Trading doesn’t just mean stocks

For most people, especially those who either aren’t involved in the markets or haven’t been for long, …