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Thanks, Jay. I see news in here that can cheer both the bulls and the bears. Bulls will be happy to see that Iran is working off its high inventories. Bears will be happy to see the Saudi supply cushion increasing and Iraq continuing to ramp up exports. The dip in supply from Venezuela...

Ah, thank you. Btw, the Big P apparently doesn't open until 7pm, so don't go there for lunch.

Am I the only one who doesn't know what the Big P is? What is it?

Still long Patbateman? What would change your mind?

From Platts: "The non-commercials, or hedge funds, continued to amass long positions in the crude oil complex on NYMEX, according to the latest Commodity Futures Trading Commission report. The non-commercials added an additional 6,936 lots as of last week taking the total long position to...

I haven't looked at gold, but according to the weekly committment of traders report, most of the oil shorts are commercials, with speculators and funds making up the longs. I guess if you are at NISOC (National Iranian South Oil Company) or Exxon Mobil you might be happy locking in the...

Not sure if you are aware of it, but, as I recall, the CBOT is going to be listing its grains electronically starting in August. It will have "side-by-side" trading going: pit and electronic. I'm sure the CBOT website has more information. Aaron Schindler Schindler Trading

Check out the CBOE VIX options. I've noticed some pretty good volume in them. Aaron Schindler Schindler Trading

+8.8% (after fees) on $2.7 million by swing trading nine different futures markets. .

How do you scalp stocks? What's the idea? Are you acting as a market maker and putting out bids and offers and hoping someone dumps a market order in and gives you a fill? Or are you looking for little micro trends and hitting the bid or offer yourself and then trying to ride it for a few...

How did they pick the name "Aaron Trading"? Aaron Trading is run by two guys named Paul and George: http://www.aarontrade.com/html/partner_profiles.html. I guess if you weren't lucky enough to get a cool name at birth, you can always give your company a cool name. :D Aaron Schindler...

Thanks, Osorico. That's a great link!

Do you know of any reference for this? I can't find it anywhere. You're probably right, but since I might be crossing this bridge at some point, I'd like to be sure. Thanks for all your info, Osorico. Btw, here is the CME's calculation of the benefits of membership...

You'd think Quadriga might have already been short both gold and crude as they have been trending lower lately. Quadriga might have done really well today. Today's drop in gold must have been close to a record, hey? Wow. Aaron Schindler Schindler Trading

Quote from front page of today's Wall Street Journal: "For all the popularity of onscreen features of Yahoo's or Google Inc.'s Web sites, their long-term prospects could increasingly depend as well on how they manage such physical considerations as power." --Surge in Internet Use, Energy Costs...

QM underlying is 500 barrels of oil. At $70.025 per barrel, these 500 barrels have a value of $35,012.50. For various reasons USO can't and doesn't represent any specific amount of oil. It is constructed so that the _percentage change_ in the price of USO will track that of crude futures...

*laugh* Thanks, Spike.

I got a brochure in the mail from eSignal today advertising a free trading seminar. It says in big bold letters "Learn How to Trade Successfully! You CAN Learn to Trade Successfully." What?! Did you think I thought I COULDN'T learn to trade successfully? Do you consider me to currently be...

I thought ETers would get a laugh out of this... This is a question from the CALPERS Emerging Manager Questionnaire being done by Altura Capital... Now, did they mean "whichever is shorter"? Or do I get to fabricate the performance for the period before inception back to 5 years ago? I'm...

*laugh* Good point!