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I wonder if there is any significance to open interest levels on CBoT's full-sized gold contract... it's much lower as a proportion/multiple of daily volume than Nymex's equivalent. Does this mean CBoT is getting a speculative/day trader market as opposed to Nymex's institutional one? Could this...

Any update on that? Man/Refco have settled with TT, does that mean TT back at Mac etc?

CBoT seat price has correlated with CME share price since the Merc's IPO, so a whole lot of that growth is already priced in. Also, CME owns its own clearinghouse and its own electronic matching engine. CBoT uses CME's clearinghouse and Euronext Liffe's matching engine. IMO, long term CBoT's...

http://www.fow.com/events/event.asp?id=68

FIA isn't an FCM, so no.

Mostly old news by now, just one of our weekly round ups on this: http://www.fow.com/articles/foweek_article.asp?storyCode=3949 FCM officials seemed pretty much to be at the consensus that you'd be pretty foolish to keep your money in there. BTW, as a journalist I feel I ought to point...

Posted this before but may be of some interest: http://www.fow.com/articles/foweek_article.asp?storyCode=3497

http://www.fow.com/articles/foweek_article.asp?storyCode=3507

As promised last week: http://www.fow.com/articles/foweek_article.asp?storyCode=3497

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I've heard some things about Curvalue's purchase by VDM - the word "overpriced" featured quite strongly. Anyone trade, or used to trade, at Curvalue and have a view? Also heard that their own front end is quite "TT-alike" - is that accurate? Two points: - I am a journalist but do not...